Vidya Dehejia

Vidya Dehejia is Barbara Stoler Miller Professor of Indian and South Asian Art at Columbia University. She was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Indian government.[1][2][3][4] Dehejia has also been appointed to the Mario Miranda Visiting Research Professorship at the Goa University.[5]

Vidya Dehejia
The President, Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil presenting the Padma Bhushan Award to Prof. Vidya Dehejia, 2012
Born
Bombay India
NationalityUnited States
AwardsPadma Bhushan
Academic background
Alma materCambridge University
St. Xavier's College, Mumbai

She was educated at the University of Cambridge, England.

Selected writings
  • 2009: The Body Adorned: Sacred and Profane in Indian Art, New York: Columbia University Press, ISBN 978-0231140287

References
  1. "Vidya Dehejia". Columbia University. Retrieved 14 December 2013.
  2. "Vidya Dehejia". www.asia.si.edu. Retrieved 14 December 2013.
  3. "19 women among Padma award winners". Yahoo News. 25 January 2012. Retrieved 14 December 2013.
  4. "Dr Vidya Dehejia" (PDF). St Xavier's College. Retrieved 14 December 2013.
  5. http://www.navhindtimes.in/reasserting-the-role-of-women-in-our-history/


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