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.
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-...
Dalits and the Democratic Revolution
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...

Shereen Ratnagar
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Harold R. Isaacs
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Paul Phillips
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Teo Ballve
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Anna Rochester
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Teodor Shanin
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Robert Biel
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John W. Murphy
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Suvira Jaiswal
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Uma Chakravarti
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Ernest Mandel
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Paul M. Sweezy
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Clara Zetkin
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