Jasleen dhamija biography templates
Jasleen dhamija biography templates
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Jasleen Dhamija
Indian art historian (1933–2023)
Jasleen Dhamija (1933 – 4 March 2023) was an Indian textile art historian, crafts expert and United Nations worker.[1] Based in Delhi, she was best known for her pioneering research on the handloom and handicraft industry, especially history of textiles and costumes.[2][3] She was professor of living cultural traditions at the University of Minnesota.[4] Over the years, during her career as a textile revivalist and scholar, she authored several books on textiles, including Sacred Textiles of India (2014).[2][5]
Background
Dhamija was born in 1933,[6] and grew up in Abbottabad, in the North Western Frontier Province, before her family migrated to Delhi in 1940, where they lived in Khyber Pass locality of Civil Lines, Delhi.
She graduated from Miranda House, University of Delhi.[6][7]
Dhamija died on 4 March 2023.[8]