Occupation Sociologist Name Meera Kosambi | Died February 26, 2015, Pune Education Stockholm University | |
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Relatives Dharmanand Kosambi (grandfather) Role Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi's daughter Parents Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi Books Crossing thresholds, Bombay in transition | ||
Meera Kosambi (24 April 1939 – 26 February 2015) was a prominent Indian sociologist. She was the youngest daughter of prominent historian and mathematician, D.D. Kosambi, and granddaughter of Acharya Dharmananda Damodar Kosambi, a Buddhist scholar and a Pāli language expert. She received a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Stockholm and she has authored several books and articles on urban sociology and women's studies in India. She served for nearly a decade as the director of the Research Centre for Women's Studies at the SNDT University for Women, Mumbai. Her much acclaimed work is on the 19th century Indian feminist Pandita Ramabai, whose writings she compiled, edited and translated from Marathi.
Kosambi died in Pune on 26 February 2015 after a brief illness aged 75.