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...

Samata Biswas
Samata Biswas teaches English at The Sanskrit College and University, Kolkata. She is a member of the Calcutta Research Group. She has co-edited the Anveshi Broadsheet on Violence; is a member of t

Siobhan Lambert-Hurley
Siobhan Lambert-Hurley is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Nottingham Trent University in the United Kingdom. Her research focuses on women, gender and Islam in South Asia with a particular em

David Fernbach
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Uma Randeria
Uma Randeria was one of the translators of The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi from Gujarati into English. She has also translated collections of short stories from Russian and Bengali into Gujar

Alfred Ehrenfeld
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Sarah Waters
Sarah Waters (born 21 July 1966) is a Welsh novelist.

Rana Ayyub
Rana Ayyub is a former editor with Tehelka and is presently an independent journalist and writer based between Mumbai and Delhi. Her body of investigative and political reports spanning a deca