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Gail Omvedt (2 August 1941 – 25 August 2021) was an American-born Indian sociologist and human rights activist. [1] [2] [3] [4] She was a prolific writer and published numerous books on the anti-caste movement, Dalit politics, and women's struggles in India.
Jul 20, 2022 · Gail Omvedt has contributed significantly to the study of social movements in India as well, providing a theoretical framework to understand the development of Anti-caste consciousness by tracing the history of anti-caste social movements pan India.
Aug 29, 2021 · Gail Omvedt. | Bharat Patankar via Facebook. When she first came to India in 1963 to stay for a year, Gail Omvedt was 22 years old. Earlier, she had been a student at Carleton College, where...
Sep 12, 2021 · Gail Omvedt, an 80-year-old Minneapolis-born sociologist, died in Kasegaon, a sleepy village town in the Indian state of Maharashtra, in late August.
Feb 19, 2022 · My mom, Gail Omvedt, the scholar, the mass-movement activist, the great anti-caste intellectual, was a romantic and humanist. She was a sharp analyst of society; of its oppressors...
Nov 5, 2022 · Scholar-activist Gail Omvedt died in Kasegaon near Pune on August 24, 2021 aged 80. A year later, her daughter Prachi and a close circle of friends have compiled a commemoration volume that brings alive the lively person, combative activist, and formidable scholar that Gail was.
American-born Indian scholar and UC Berkeley alum, Dr. Gail Omvedt passed away on August 25, 2021 after a prolonged illness at her residence in Kasegaon village of Sangli district in Maharashtra. The Dalit-Bahujan, Adivasis, women and human rights champion was 81.
Aug 25, 2021 · The death of the social scientist Gail Omvedt (1941-2021) marks the passing of an era of activism combined with rigorous academics. Omvedt passed away on August 25 in her home in Kasegaon in...
Aug 27, 2021 · Rejecting Orientalist, nationalist and hindutva impulses to “reinvent” India, Gail Omvedt threads together the worldviews of subaltern visionaries spanning five centuries – Chokhamela ...
scholar-activist: Gail Omvedt (02 August 1941–25 August 2021) Dr Gail Omvedt, a sociologist of international repute, passed away on 25 August 2021 at the age of 80. She was born in Minneapolis, United States, and became an Indian citizen in 1983. She was an extraordinary scholar and a prolific writer who interpreted
