Tarini Bedi

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Biography
Name	Tarini Bedi
Full Name	Tarini Bedi Mubayi
Profession	Author Professor
Famous for	Being Kabir Bedi‘s niece
Date of Birth	1975
Age (In 2025)	50 Years
Birth Place	Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Residence	Hyde Park, Chicago, United States
Nationality	Indian
Religion	Sikhism
Caste	Khatri
Mother Tongue	Punjabi
Physical Stats
Height	in centimeters- 163 cm in meters- 1.63 m in feet inches- 5ft 4in
Eye Color	Black
Hair Color	Black
Family and Marriage Details
Marital Status	Married
Husband	Dhruv Mubayi (professor)
Children
Daughter(s)	Maya Mubayi
Parents
Father	Late Satish Kuldip Bedi
Mother	Anjula (Anju) Bedi
Sibling(s)
Sister(s)	Aadya Bedi (actress)
Cousin(s)	Pooja Bedi Adam Bedi Siddharth Bedi Seher Bedi Shiv Maira Amarantha (Ami) Mehera Sohni Tanna Kalpana Mehra
Other Relative(s)
Uncle(s)	Rahul Kuldip Bedi (author) Kabir Bedi (actor) Ranga Bedi
Niece(s)	Alaya F (actress)
Nephew(s)	Omar Furniturewalla
Education Details
School	Not Known
College	University of Illinois Chicago McGill University, Montreal Bennington College St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai
Educational Qualification	Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Anthropology Master of Arts (M.A) in Anthropology Master of Arts (M.A) in Political Science Bachelor of Arts (B.A) in Social Sciences and Theater
Bibliography
Books (as Author)	Mumbai Taximen (2022) The Dashing Ladies of Shiv Sena (2016) Shiv Sena Women and the Gendered Politics of Performance in Maharashtra (2011)
Contact/Social Media Details
Twitter	twitter.com/beditarini
Linkedin	linkedin.com/in/tarini-bedi-1b41b0247/
Email	[email protected]
Facts
Tarini Bedi is an Anthropologist and Author. She is working as a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Chicago. 1
Tarini was born in 1976 to Satish Kuldip Bedi and Anjula Bedi in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Actress Aadya Bedi is her younger sister.
She is the niece of actor Kabir Bedi as her father, Satish Kuldip Bedi, was Kabir Bedi’s cousin.
Tarini Bedi earned a bachelor’s degree in social sciences and theater at Bennington College in 1995 and then earned a master’s degree in Political Science at McGill University, Montreal in 1998 and a master’s degree in Anthropology from the University of Illinois Chicago in 2004. Later, she completed her PhD in Anthropology at the University of Illinois Chicago, in 2009. 2
Her father, Satish Kuldip Bedi passed away on 18 July 2011 in Gurgaon, Haryana. 3
Her first book as an author, “Shiv Sena Women and the Gendered Politics of Performance in Maharashtra”, was published by Umi Dissertation Publishing on 1 September 2011. In November 2016, Aleph Book Company published her second book “The Dashing Ladies of Shiv Sena”. Tarini’s third book “Mumbai Taximen” was published on 15 February 2022 by the University of Washington Press. 4 5 6
She is a Member of the Board of Trustees of the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) and a Member of the Executive Committee of the International Association for the History of Traffic, Transport, and Mobility. 2
Tarini Bedi is married to Dhruv Mubayi and the couple has a daughter named Maya Mubayi. Dhruv is a professor of mathematics, statistics, and computer science at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in in Chicago, Illinois. 7

References

1. https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarini-bedi-1b41b0247/details/experience/[↩]
2. https://anth.uic.edu/profiles/bedi-tarini/[↩][↩]
3. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/satish-kuldip-bedi/articleshow/9283983.cms[↩]
4. https://www.amazon.in/Women-Gendered-Politics-Performance-Maharashtra/dp/1244043052/[↩]
5. https://www.amazon.in/DASHING-LADIES-SHIV-SENA/dp/9383064226[↩]
6. https://www.amazon.in/Mumbai-Taximen-Autobiographies-Automobilities-Global/dp/0295749865/[↩]
7. https://faculty.uic.edu/development/resources/published/tarini-bedi/[↩]