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.
- 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 750
Dalit Visions explores and critiques the sensibility which equates Indian tradition with Hinduism, and Hinduism with Brahmanism; which considers the Vedas as the foun...
- Jaati ki SamajhINR 395
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
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- Building the Ambedkar RevolutionINR 499
The book 'Building the Ambedkar Revolution: Sambhaji Tukaram Gaikwad and Kokan Dalits' is an overdue tribute to Sambhaji Tukaram Gaikwad, Dr. Ambedkar's trusted ...
- 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...
Srimati Basu
Srimati Basu is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Anthropology at the University of Kentucky, and the author of The Trouble with Marriage: Feminists Confront Law and Violence in
Haifa Zangana
Haifa Zangana is the author of many books, including City of Widows: An Iraqi Woman’s Account of War and Resistance. Her comments on Iraqi affairs are published internationally including in The
Willfried F. Feuser
Willfried F. Feuser (1928-2000) was a German scholar and a pioneer in the research and dissemination of African literature in European languages.
Alice Mah
Alice Mah is Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Warwick, UK.
Malvika Maheshwari
Malvika Maheshwari teaches political science at Ashoka University, Haryana, India.Niladri R. Chatterjee
Niladri R. Chatterjee is Professor, Department of English, University of Kalyani, West Bengal. His doctoral work was on the novelist Christopher Isherwood. A recipient of Fulbright Scholarship and