Gail Omvedt

Gail Omvedt
Gail Omvedt (born 2 August 1941) is an American-born Indian scholar who has written extensively on caste and Dalit politics. She is the author of Dalits and the Democratic Revolution (1994), Buddhism in India: Challenging Brahmanism and Caste (2003) and Ambedkar: Towards an Enlightened India (2004), among other books.
- PatriarchyINR 500
Addressing students and the general reader, this series introduces key concepts in feminist theory. Any reader will find the series vitally useful for understanding what new theories mean and how t...
- Seeking BegumpuraINR 399
The bhakti radical Ravidas (c 1450–1520), calling himself a ‘tanner now set free’, was the first to envision an Indian utopia in his song “Begumpura”—a modern casteless, classless, tax-...
- UNDERSTANDING CASTEINR 495
Understanding Casteapproaches the historical issue of caste and anti-caste movements from a position of insightful inquiry and rigorous scholarship. Critiquing the sensibility which equates Indian ...
- DALIT VISIONSINR 575Dalit Visions explores and critiques the sensibility which equates Indian tradition with Hinduism, and Hinduism with Brahmanism; which considers the Vedas as the foundational texts of Indian culture a...
- Jaati ki SamajhINR 250
Jaati ki Samajh Mahatama Buddh se Babasaheb Ambedkar aur Unke Baad is the Hindi version of the book Understanding Caste: From Budhha to Ambedkar and Beyond published by Orient blackSwan.Read More
- Dalits and the Democratic RevolutionINR 795
This important book traces the history of the Dalit movement from its beginning in the 19th century to the death of its most famous leader, B.R. Ambedkar, in 1956. Focusing on three states – Andh...

Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental thinker and activist, a leader in the International Forum on Globalisation, and of the Slow Food Movement. Director of Navdanya and of the Research F

Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
Geoffrey Nowell-Smith is Professor and Senior Research Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London, where he is directing a project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council on the history

Indu Banga
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Christopher Hill
Christopher Hill was an English Marxist historian and academic, specialising in seventeenth century English history. From 1965 to 1978, he was Master of Balliol College, Oxford University.

Krupa Shandilya
Krupa Shandilya is an Associate Professor of Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. She is the author of the monograph Intimate Relations:

Monideepa Sahu
Monideepa Sahu is an "author, columnist, speaker on creative writing and literature". She is the author of Rabindranath Tagore: The Renaissance Man.

Andrey Tarkovsky
Andrey Tarkovsky (1932–86) was an award-winning Soviet filmmaker, writer, film editor, film theorist, theater, and opera director.
Marc Bloch
Marc Bloch was a mediaeval historian, University Professor and French Army officer. Bloch was a founder of the Annales School, best known for his pioneering study French Rural History and his posth