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Dr. Gail Omvedt is an American born Indian scholar, sociologist and human rights activist. Omvedt has been involved in Dalit and anti-caste movements, environmental, farmers' and women's movements.

Biography

She was born in Minneapolis, and studied at the Carleton College, and at UC Berkeley where she earned her PhD in sociology in 1973. She has been an Indian citizen since 1983.
In recent years she's been working as a consulting sociologist on gender, environment and rural development, for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Oxfam Novib (NOVIB) and other institutions.

Works

Omvedt's dissertation was on Cultural Revolt in a Colonial Society: The NonBrahman Movement in Western India, 1873-1930.
Omvedt's academic writing includes numerous books and articles on class, caste and gender issues, most notably:

We Shall Smash This Prison: Indian Women in Struggle (1979),
Reinventing Revolution: New Social Movements in India (1993),
Gender and Technology: Emerging Asian Visions (1994),
Dalits and the Democratic Revolution (1994),
Dalit Visions: the Anticaste movement and Indian Cultural Identity (1994)

Her more recent works are:

Buddhism in India : Challenging Brahmanism and Caste,

Growing Up Untouchable: A Dalit Autobiography Among Others.

Positions

Omvedt posits that Hindutva groups foster an ethnic definition of Hinduism based on geography, ancestry and heritage in order to create a solidarity amongst various castes, despite the prevalence of caste-based discrimination.
Omvedt endorsed the stand taken by Dalit activists at the 2001 World Conference Against Racism that caste discrimination is similar to racism in regarding discriminated groups as "biologically inferior and socially dangerous". and sociologists including Andre Béteille, who acknowledges that discrimination exists but opposes treating caste as a form of racism simply to protect against prejudice and discrimination, calling such an attempt "politically mischievous and "worse, scientifically nonsense".
She has called the United States a "racist country" and has advocated for affirmative actionFurther Information

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