[Reader-list] Gail Omvedt's Lecture at Sarai, 20 Nov 2008, 3.30 pm

Navayana Publishing navayana at gmail.com
Tue Nov 18 12:57:33 IST 2008


On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of Navayana,
we invite you to the first in the series of monthly lectures
in collaboration with Sarai

Gail Omvedt
will speak on
Dalits and Social Vision

Date: 20 November 2008
Venue: Seminar Room, CSDS
Time: 3:30 pm

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 (1994)
Her more recent works are:
    * Buddhism in India: Challenging Brahmanism and Caste (2003)
    * Ambedkar: Towards an Enlightened India (2004)
    * Seeking Begumpura: The Social Vision of Anticaste Intellectuals (2008)

Omvedt is currently a Fellow-In-Residence at the Indian Institute of
Advanced Study, Shimla.

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