[Reader-list] [Announcements] Talk @ Sarai by Gail Omvedt

[Mitoo Das]

*Talk at Sarai*
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You are invited to an illustrated talk by Gail Omvedt at Sarai- CSDS. 
Please read on for details:

*Dalits and Social Vision*
*By Gail Omvedt
Date: 20th November 2008
Venue: Seminar Room, CSDS
Time: 3:30 pm
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Gail Omvedt's talk is the first of a series of events (formal and 
informal) planned in collaboration between The Sarai Programme at CSDS 
and Navayana Publications.

Gail Omvedt 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. Omvedt's dissertation 
was on Cultural Revolt in a Colonial Society: The Non-Brahman 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 (2003)
    * Ambedkar: Towards an Enlightened India (2004)
    * Seeking Begumpura: The Social Vision of Anticaste Intellectuals 
(2008).

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