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| name = Meera Kosambi<br />
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| birth_date = 24 April 1939<br />
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| death_date = {{d-da|26 February 2015|24 April 1939}}<br />
| death_place = Pune, Maharashtra<br />
| occupation = Sociologist<br />
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| parents = [[Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi]] (father)<br />
| relatives = [[Dharmanand Kosambi]] (grandfather)<br />
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'''Meera Kosambi''' (24 April 1939 – 26 February 2015) was an Indian [[sociologist]]. <br />
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==Biography==<br />
She was the younger daughter of the illustrious intellectual, historian, linguist, statistician and mathematician, [[D.D. Kosambi]], and granddaughter of Acharya [[Dharmananda Damodar Kosambi]], a Buddhist scholar and a [[Pāli]] language expert. Her mother's name was Nalini Kosambi (nee' Madgavkar). She received a Ph.D. in sociology from the [[University of Stockholm]]. She is the author of several books and articles on urban sociology and women's studies in India. <br />
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For nearly a decade she served as Director of the Research Centre for Women's Studies at the [[SNDT Women's University|SNDT University for Women]], Mumbai. She worked extensively on the 19th-century Indian feminist [[Pandita Ramabai]], whose writings she compiled, edited and translated from [[Marathi language|Marathi]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.hindu.com/lr/2004/05/02/stories/2004050200330500.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040604071812/http://www.hindu.com/lr/2004/05/02/stories/2004050200330500.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=4 June 2004 |title=The Modernist's Gaze | location=Chennai, India |work=[[The Hindu]] |date=2 May 2004}}</ref> She has also translated and edited the autobiography and scholarly writings of her grandfather Dharmananda Damodar Kosambi.<br />
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Kosambi died in Pune on 26 February 2015 after a brief illness.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/noted-sociologist-meera-kosambi-passes-away-at-75/article6941142.ece |title=Noted sociologist Meera Kosambi passes away |publisher=The Hindu | location=Pune, India |date=27 February 2015}}</ref><br />
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==Works==<br />
*1986 ''Bombay in Transition : The Growth and Social Ecology of a Colonial City, 1880-1980'', Stockholm, Sweden: Almqvist & Wiksell International<br />
*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<br />
*1994 ''Urbanization and Urban Development in India'', New Delhi: Indian Council of Social Science Research<br />
*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<br />
*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<br />
*2000 ''Intersections : Socio-Cultural Trends in Maharashtra'' (edited), New Delhi: Orient Longman, New Delhi<br />
*2000 ''Pandita Ramabai Through Her Own Words: Selected Works'' (translated, edited and compiled) New Delhi; New York: Oxford University Press<br />
*2003 ''Pandita Ramabai's American Encounter : The Peoples of the United States (1889)'' (translated and edited), Bloomington: Indiana University Press.<br />
*2007 ''Crossing Thresholds: Feminist Essays in Social History'', Ranikhet: Permanent Black<br />
*2011 ''Nivedan: The Autobiography of Dharmanand Kosambi'', trans. by Meera Kosambi. Ranikhet: Permanent Black.<br />
*2012 ''Women Writing Gender'' (edited, translated and with an introduction), Ranikhet: Permanent Black, {{ISBN|978-8178243368}}<br />
*2013 ''Dharmanand Kosambi: The Essential Writings'', ed. by Meera Kosambi. Orient Blackswan.<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDFLeAAcXP8 Video]. Meera Kosambi speaks at the release of ''Dharmananda Kosambi: The Essential Writings'' (2013)<br />
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