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Veena Talwar Oldenburg is Professor of History at Baruch College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is best known for her widely reviewed book on Dowry murder.[citation needed]Oldenburg is a native of Lucknow India. She has a bachelors degree from Loreto Convent College and an M.A. from the University of Lucknow. She has a second masters to from the University of Bridgeport which she earned shortly after immigrating to the United States in 1970 and a Ph.D.