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...
Tom Brass
Tom Brass (3 March 1946) is a leading Marxist scholar who has written extensively on peasant studies.
Kumkum Sangari
Kumkum Sangari, is William F. Vilas Research Professor of English and the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has published extensively on British, American and Indian lit
Ashish Rajadhyaksha
Ashish Rajadhyaksha is a film scholar, historian and curator working on digital governance issues. He wrote The Last Cultural Mile: An Inquiry into Technology and Governance in India (2011) and edi
Shuby Abidi
Shuby Abidi teaches in the Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. She has also taught in the Department of English, Aligarh Muslim University for seven years. Her doctoral dissertatioNicos Trimikliniotis
Nicos Trimikliniotis is a Cypriot sociologist and lawyer, associated with the University of Nicosia, Cyprus, and co-leads a programme on Reconciliation on the island of Cyprus.