Arya Burt

Arya Burt is Archivist for the OCHS Hindu Archive. Arya gained her Bachelor of Arts Degree, majoring in psychology and sociology from the University of New South Wales, Sydney in 1991. She then went on to complete a Master of Arts Degree in psychology at the University of Sydney in 1992. Arya completed work on setting up a small archive in Philadelphia, USA in 2001 and established a lending library at the College of Vedic Studies near London in 2002. Arya is enthusiastic to see the history of Hinduism in the United Kingdom preserved and promoted, and is working towards setting up the Hindu Archive and Hindu oral history projects, as a valuable resource which will help meet this goal. She is currently pursuing a DPhil in Religious Studies at the University of Leeds.