Peggy HolroydePeggy Holroyde was born in England in 1924, but has become a global citizen spending four years in the USA at Radcliffe College Harvard 1941-1945 with a degree in English Literature and Fine Arts. There she found her mentor, H.N. Spalding who createdthe Spalding Chair of Eastern Religions and Ethics at Oxford University in 1936. She studied Hindu and Buddhist faiths under Dr S. Radhakrishnan at Oxford in 1946-1948. In 1953 she joined her BBC Representative husband in India where she spent five years.

During that time she travelled the sub-continent extensively and has returned innumerable times. She has lectured on Indian history and cultural attitudes at various educational institutions in the UK, as well as Australia where she has lived since accompanying her husband on his academic appointment in 1976. She is a Member of the Order of Australia after administering various Indian Ocean Festivals in Australia.

She is the author of Indian Music, East Comes West, Social Change Amongst Asian Families in England and An ABC of Indian Culture. Read More Read Less