Title: Remembering Gail Omvedt And Her Legacy Author: Anosh Malekar , Dileep Chavan , Nagmani Rao , Prachi Patankar , Pramod Mujumdar Category: Biographical Publication: Aarsh Publications Publication Date: 2022 Pages: 304 ISBN13: 9789391090005 Description: Dr Gail Omvedt (81), one of the greatest scholars on caste studies. Omvedt has pioneered caste studies having come as a student from the US and settled down in India in the 1970s. She later married Bharat Patankar, a Marxist scholar and activist; both of them lived in his village over these years. She came to study caste and Mahatma Phule’s movement in Maharashtra as a PhD student, and was moved by the kind of caste and untouchability system she encountered in India. Omvedt settled down in this country to work for the liberation of the oppressed castes.As an American-born Indian scholar, sociologist and human rights activist, she was well known all over the world for her writing on Dalits/OBCs/Adivasis.Gail Omvedt
Author: Anosh Malekar , Dileep Chavan , Nagmani Rao , Prachi Patankar , Pramod Mujumdar
Category: Biographical
Publication: Aarsh Publications
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 304
ISBN13: 9789391090005
Description: Dr Gail Omvedt (81), one of the greatest scholars on caste studies. Omvedt has pioneered caste studies having come as a student from the US and settled down in India in the 1970s. She later married Bharat Patankar, a Marxist scholar and activist; both of them lived in his village over these years. She came to study caste and Mahatma Phule’s movement in Maharashtra as a PhD student, and was moved by the kind of caste and untouchability system she encountered in India. Omvedt settled down in this country to work for the liberation of the oppressed castes.As an American-born Indian scholar, sociologist and human rights activist, she was well known all over the world for her writing on Dalits/OBCs/Adivasis.Gail Omvedt