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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 India's 19th century feminist Pandita Ramabai, whose writings she compiled, edited and translated from Marathi. Kosambi died at a private hospital in Pune on 26 February 2015 after a brief illness aged 75. ==Works== *1986 ''Bombay in Transition : The Growth and Social Ecology of a Colonial City, 1880-1980'', Stockholm, Sweden: Almqvist & Wiksell International *1994 ''Women's Oppression in the Public Gaze: an Analysis of Newspaper Coverage, State Action and Activist Response'' (edited), Bombay: Research Centre for Women’s Studies, S.N.D.T. Women’s University *1994 ''Urbanization and Urban Development in India'', New Delhi: Indian Council of Social Science Research *1995 ''Pandita Ramabai’s Feminist and Christian Conversions : Focus on Stree Dharma-neeti'', Bombay: Research Centre for Women’s Studies, S.N.D.T. Women’s University *1996 ''Women in Decision-Making in the Private Sector in India'' (with Divya Pandey and Veena Poonacha), Mumbai: Research Centre for Women’s Studies, S.N.D.T. Women’s University *2000 ''Intersections : Socio-Cultural Trends in Maharashtra'' (edited), New Delhi: Orient Longman, New Delhi *2000 ''Pandita Ramabai Through Her Own Words: Selected Works'' (translated, edited and compiled) New Delhi; New York: Oxford University Press *2003 ''Pandita Ramabai's American Encounter : The Peoples of the United States (1889)'' (translated and edited), Bloomington: Indiana University Press. *2007 ''Crossing Thresholds: Feminist Essays in Social History'', Ranikhet: Permanent Black *2012 ''Women Writing Gender'' (edited, translated and with an introduction), Ranikhet: Permanent Black, ISBN 978-8178243368 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Meera Kosambi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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