Occupation South Asian studies | Subject Sanskrit Name Indira Peterson | |
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Notable works Poems to Siva: The Hymns of the Tamil Saints Books The Great Temple at Thanjavur: One Thousand Years, 1010-2010 Education University of Mumbai, Harvard University Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada | ||
Nationality India & United States | ||
Indira Viswanathan Peterson is a literary critic and the David B. Truman Professor of Asian Studies at Mount Holyoke College. She is a specialist in South Asian Studies.
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Background
Peterson was born and raised in Mumbai, India. She came to the United States as an AFS (American Field Service) exchange high school student in the late 1960s. She returned to Mumbai and received her B.A. in English literature from The University of Mumbai and her Ph.D. in Sanskrit from Harvard University in 1976. She has been a professor at Mount Holyoke since 1982, with a period at Columbia University from 2002-2004.
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