Early Years and Education
Hoshang Merchant was born in 1947 to a Zoroastrian business-family in Bombay, India. On his mother’s side he descends from a line of teachers and preachers. Merchant was educated at St. Xavier's College, Bombay. He has a Masters from Occidental College, Los Angeles. Thereafter at Purdue, he studied Renaissance and Modernism, and for his PhD (1981), wrote a dissertation on Anais Nin. He has lived and taught in Heidelberg, Jerusalem and Iran where he was exposed to various radical movements of the Left.
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