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India/Jharkhand/Nagaland/Nepal & South Asia
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Primary Sources
Omvedt, G. ([1974] 2024). From 50 Years Ago: Non-Brahmans and Nationalist in Poona, <em>59 (</em>8) <em>Economics and Political Weekly. </em><a href="https://www.epw.in/journal/2024/8/50-years-ago/50-years-ago%C2%A0non-brahmans-and-nationalists-poona.html">https://www.epw.in/journal/2024/8/50-years-ago/50-years-ago%C2%A0non-brahmans-and-nationalists-poona.html</a><br /><br />Omvedt, G. ([1994], 2021). <em>Dalits and the Democratic Revolution: Dr Ambedkar and the Dalit Movement in Colonial India. </em>Accessed 12 May 2025<em> </em><a href="https://archive.org/details/dalits-and-the-democratic-revolution-dr-ambedkar-and-the-dalit-movement-in-colonial-india" title="https://archive.org/details/dalits-and-the-democratic-revolution-dr-ambedkar-and-the-dalit-movement-in-colonial-india">https://archive.org/details/dalits-and-the-democratic-revolution-dr-ambedkar-and-the-dalit-movement-in-colonial-india</a><br /><br />Omvedt, G. ([2004] 2017). <em>Ambedkar: Towards an Enlightened India</em>, India: Penguin, Internet Archive, Accessed 20 Mar 2025, <a href="https://archive.org/details/ambedkar-towards-an-enlightened-india">https://archive.org/details/ambedkar-towards-an-enlightened-india</a><br /><br />Omvedt, G. ([2008], 2016). <em>Seeking Begumpura: The Social Vision of Anticaste Intellectuals</em>, 20th anniversary edition, Navayana, Internet Archive, 2021, Accessed 20 Mar 2025. <a href="https://archive.org/details/seeking-begumpura-the-social-vision-of-anticaste-intellectuals">https://archive.org/details/seeking-begumpura-the-social-vision-of-anticaste-intellectuals</a><br /><br />Omvedt, G. (2006). <em>Dalit Visions: Tracts for this Time</em>, Orient Black Swan, <a href="https://orientblackswan.com/details?id=9788125028956">https://orientblackswan.com/details?id= 97881 25 028956</a> <br /><br /><span>Omvedt, G. (2005). Capitalism and Globalisation, Dalits and Adivasis. </span><i>Economic and Political Weekly</i><span>, </span><i>40</i><span>(47), 4881–4885.</span><br /><br /><span>Omvedt, G. (2005). Women in Governance in South Asia. </span><i>Economic and Political Weekly</i><span>, </span><i>40</i><span>(44/45), 4746–4752.</span><br /><br />Omvedt, G. (2003). <em>Buddhism in India: Challenging Brahmanism and Caste</em>, India: Sage Publications. Accessed 20 Mar 2025. <a href="https://archive.org/details/indianbuddhisminindiachallengingbrahmanismcastegailomvedt_893_F/page/n3/mode/2up">https://archive.org/details/indianbuddhisminindiachallengingbrahmanismcastegailomvedt_893_F/page/n3/mode/2up</a><br /><br />Omvedt, G. (1980). <em>We Will Smash This Prison: Indian Women in Struggle</em>, London: Zed Press. <br /><br />Omvedt, G. (1976). <em>Cultural Revolution in the Colonial Society: the non-brahamic movement in Western India 1873-1930</em>, Bombay: Scientific Socialist Education Trust.<br /><br /><span>Omvedt, G. (1975). The political economy of starvation. </span><i>Race & Class</i><span>, </span><i>17</i><span>(2), 111-130. </span><a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/030639687501700201">https://doi.org/10.1177/030639687501700201</a><span> (Original work published 1975)</span><br /><br />Omvedt, G. (1973) <a href="https://www.epw.in/journal/1973/31-32-33/polictics-and-society-specials/development-maharashtrian-class-structure-1818" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Development of the Maharashtrian Class Structure, 1818 to 1931 </a> <em>Economic and Political Weekly 9, 8</em> (31 32-33)
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<div class="eqA2re UnOTSe Vwoesf" aria-hidden="true"><span>Kamble, S. (2022). Obituary: The extraordinary life of a scholar-activist: Gail Omvedt (02 August 1941-25 August 2021). <i>Contributions to Indian Sociology</i>, <i>56</i>(1), 15–16. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/00699667221112131">https://doi.org/10.1177/00699667221112131</a><br /><br />Jodhka, S., S (</span>2021), Striving for Begumpura: Traversing the Economic Activism of Gail Omvedt,<em> Economic & Political Weekly, </em>Aug, 21, <a href="https://www.epw.in/engage/article/striving-begumpura-traversing-intellectual ">https://www.epw.in/engage/article/striving-begumpura-traversing-intellectual<br /><br /></a>Back to Begumpura | In the memory of Gail Omvedt | Shruti Tambe | Bidhan Chandra Dash. (2021, September 14). <em>Galp Lok.</em> YouTube. <span>Accessed March 15, 2025. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAeeT3R2Ndg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAeeT3R2Ndg</a></span><br /><br /><span>Yasir, S. (2021, September 3). Gail Omvedt, 80, Sociologist Dedicated to Studying Castes. </span><i>The New York Times</i><span>, A21.<br /></span></div>
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<p>Documentary: Director, Somnath Waghmare, <em>Gail Omvedt and Bahrat</em>, work in progress, Accessed June 10, 2024 <a href="https://youtu.be/t1CPxb8J8qk">https://youtu.be/t1CPxb8J8qk</a> .<br /><span></span></p>
Birth Date
1941
Birthplace
Minneapolis - worked in India
Death Date
2021, India
Secondary Sources
<span>Gaikwad, B. N., & Patil, S. R. (2017). An Interview with Dr Gail Omvedt. <i>Writers in Conversation</i>, <i>4</i>(2). <a href="https://doi.org/10.22356/wic.v4i2.22">https://doi.org/10.22356/wic.v4i2.22</a><br /><br />Aayushi Sangharshee. (2020). Gail Omvedt’s Dalit Visions: A Look at Various Alternative Movements Which Rose Under the Larger Dalit Movement. <i>The Creative Launcher; Vol. 4 No. 6 (2020): February, </i><a href="2020;%2027-322455-6580ark:/72165/Thecreativelauncher.V4i6." title="2020; 27-322455-6580ark:/72165/Thecreativelauncher.V4i6.">2020; 27-322455-6580ark:/72165/Thecreativelauncher.V4i6</a><a href="2020;%2027-322455-6580ark:/72165/Thecreativelauncher.V4i6." title="2020; 27-322455-6580ark:/72165/Thecreativelauncher.V4i6.">.</a><br /><br />Dhanagare, D. N. (2007) Practising Sociology through History: The Indian Experience - II. </span><i>Economic and Political Weekly</i><span> 42 (34), 3499–3508. <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/4419945.">http://www.jstor.org/stable/4419945.</a></span><br /><br />Visvanathan, S. (2003). Vasant Moon, Growing Up Untouchable in India: a Dalit Autobiography (trans. from Marathi by Gail Omvedt), New Delhi, Vistaar Publications, 2002. <i>Studies in History </i>, <i>19</i>(2), 294–295.<br /><br />Bharat Patankar, & Omvedt, G. (1979). The Dalit Liberation Movement in Colonial Period. <em>Economic and Political Weekly</em>, 14(7/8), 409–424. <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/4367359">http://www.jstor.org/stable/4367359</a>
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Gail Omvedt
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Sociologist: Caste Inequality
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Anti-caste
Anticolonialism
Caste System
Colonial Gender Inequality
Dalit-Bahujan Scholarship
Equality
Feminism
Social Activism
Social Inequality
Sociology