Ved Mehta papers, ca. 1930-[ongoing].

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Ved Mehta papers, ca. 1930-[ongoing].

Correspondence, family archival material, personal papers, writings, research and subject files, clippings and financial papers.

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Mehta, Ved, 1934-

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Ved Mehta, Indian-American author of novels, family biographies, and essays, was born in 1934 in Lahore (then an Indian city, now part of Pakistan). Blind since childhood, he attended boarding schools in India and in the United States. He continued his education at Pomona College and Harvard University, eventually becoming an American citizen. Among his many writings are A Portrait of India (1970), the series of family biographies Continents of Exile (1972-1993), and the collected essays Fly and...