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Interview with Pushpa Wood

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Date

19 Jun 1994

By

Wood, Pushpa, 1956-

Reference

OHInt-0063/06

Description

Pushpa Wood details being born in Delhi India on 14 July 1956, moving to New Zealand in May 1980 and living in Wellington. Talks about her life in India, growing up, education, family, rejecting arranged marriages and caste system, and early experiences. Notes that she speaks about 15 languages including English, Sanskrit, Punjabi, Rajasthani, Urdu, her religion is Hindu and that her caste is Brahmin. Describes how she currently conducts many religious ceremonies, a role usually reserved for Brahmin men. Details completing a BA and an MA in languages at Delhi University and meeting her husband, Jack Wood, in India.

Describes completing her PhD at Victoria University in religion. Talks about her career, feminism, her daughter Gayatri and the combination of her own Hinduism and her husband's Christianity. Describes her work teaching vegetarian cooking and lecturing at the Wellington Polytechnic in Indian religion. Notes that she is on several committees and supervises an honours student in Sanskrit. Reflects on the Indian community in Wellington and her life in Wellington both past and present, her dreams for her daughter and her philosophies on life.

Venue - Wellington

Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006133, OHC-006134

Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 2 Hours Duration.

Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1378 summary notes.

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