Sociologist Gail Omvedt Passes Away

• 25 Aug 2021

• American-born Indian scholar, sociologist, human rights activist, researcher, and author Gail Omvedt has passed away on 25th August 2021.
• She was one of the intellectual voices of the ‘Bahujan Movement’.
• Omvedt authored books on Dalit politics, women’s struggle and anti-caste movement.
• She also participated in various people’s movements in the country, including the one for the rights of people displaced by to Koyna Dam.
• She co-founded ‘Shramik Mukti Dal’ along with her husband and activist Bharat Patankar.
• She visited India during her doctoral research work to study social movements here and studied the work of Mahatma Phule. Her thesis was on ‘Non-Brahmin Movement in Western India’.