Gail Omvedt (2 August 1941 – 25 August 2021) was an American-born Indian sociologist and human rights activist.[1][2][3][4] She was a prolific writer and published numerous books on the anti-caste movement, Dalit politics, and women's struggles in India. Omvedt was involved in Dalit and anti-caste movements, environmental, farmers' and women's movements, especially with rural women.
Omvedt's dissertation was titled 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. Besides undertaking many research projects, she was a consultant for FAO, UNDP and NOVIB and served as a Dr Ambedkar Chair Professor at NISWASS in Orissa, a professor of sociology at the University of Pune and an Asian guest professor at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen. She was a senior fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library and research director of the Krantivir Babuji Patankar Sanstha.
Gail Omvedt was born in Minneapolis, and studied at Carleton College and at UC Berkeley where she earned her PhD in sociology in 1973. When she went to India for the first time in 1963~64, she was an English tutor on a Fulbright Fellowship.[5] Omveldt again came to India for research in the 1970s. At that time she met her future husband, Bharat Patankar, and his social activist mother,Indumati Patankar. After marrying Bharat, she lived with her husband and his extended family in a village called Kasegaon in Indian state of Maharashtra.[6] She became an Indian citizen in 1983.
In the years before her death she was working as a consulting sociologist on gender, environment and rural development, for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Oxfam Novib (NOVIB) and other institutions. She was a consultant for UN agencies and NGOs, served as a Dr. Ambedkar Chair Professor at NISWASS in Orissa, a professor of sociology at the University of Pune, as Asian Guest Professor at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen and as a Senior Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. She was a Visiting Professor and Coordinator, School of Social Justice, University of Pune and a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. Gail Omvedt was a former Chair Professor for the Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Chair of Social Change and Development at IGNOU. Omvedt died on 25 August 2021 in Maharashtra at the age of 80.[7][8][9]
Activism
Omvedt worked with social movements in India, including the Dalit and anti-caste movements, environmental movements, farmers' movements and especially with rural women. She was active in Shramik Mukti Dal, Stri Mukti Sangarsh Chalval which works on issues of abandoned women in Sangli and Satara districts of southern Maharashtra, and the Shetkari Mahila Aghadi, which works on issues of women's land rights and political power.[10]
Views
Gail Omvedt was an Ambedkarite scholar who contributed immensely to the anti-caste movement.[11][12][13][14][15][16] Omvedt was critical of the religious scriptures of Hinduism (or what she specifically regarded as "brahminism") for what she argued is their promotion of a caste-based society.
In addition to her criticism of their purported advocacy for the caste-system, Omvedt also dismissed the Hindu tradition of venerating the Vedas as holy. In a 2000 open letter published in The Hindu addressed to then-BJP President Bangaru Laxman, she gave her perspective on the Rigveda:
As for the Vedas, they are impressive books, especially the Rg Veda. But to take them as something holy? Read them for yourself! Most of the hymns are for success in war, cattle- stealing, love-making and the like. They celebrate conquest; the hymns about Indra and Vrtra sound suspiciously as if the Aryans were responsible for smashing dams built by the Indus valley people; though archeologists tell us there is no evidence for direct destruction by "Aryan invasion", the Rg Veda gives evidence of enmity between the Aryans and those they called dasyus, panis and the like.[17]
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.[18]
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".[18]
She called the United States a "racist country" and has advocated for affirmative action; however, she compared American positive-discrimination policies favorably to those of India, stating:
It is a sad comment on the state of Indian industrialists' social consciousness that such discussions have begun in an organised way in the U.S. before they have been thought of in India itself. [19]
and, with respect to perceptions of "group performance", in the United States and India, Omvedt wrote:
Whereas the U.S. debate assumes an overall equal distribution of capacity among social groups, in India the assumption seems to be that the unequal showing of different caste groups on examinations, in education, etc. is a result of actual different capacities.
She on occasion supported big-dam projects[20] and GMO crops.[21][22]
Controversy and criticism
Andre Beteille's criticism
Omvedt's portrayal of caste-discrimination and violence as forms of "racism" was opposed by the Indian government[23] and sociologists in India, including Andre Beteille, who while acknowledging that discrimination exists, deeply opposed treating caste as a form of racism "simply to protect against prejudice and discrimination", describing such attempts as "politically mischievous" and "worse, scientifically nonsense".[24][25] Beteille argues (that):
In the past, some groups claimed superior rights on the ground that they belonged to the Aryan race or the Teutonic race. The anthropologists rejected such claims on two grounds: first, on the ground that within the same human species no race is superior to any other; but also on the ground that there is no such thing as an Aryan race or a Teutonic race. We cannot throw out the concept of race by the front door when it is misused for asserting social superiority and bring it in again through the back door to misuse it in the cause of the oppressed. The metaphor of race is a dangerous weapon whether it is used for asserting white supremacy or for making demands on behalf of disadvantaged groups.[26]
Marxist critique
Omvedt was criticized for a perceived "anti-statist" bias in her writing as well as "neo-liberal" economic sympathies. Scholars have also questioned the sincerity of her claims regarding the "authenticity" of her work, writing:[27]
In this paragraph, Omvedt is transformed from dangerous American outsider to revolutionary insider, player of a song proclaiming: 'We will cut the throats of the rich!' The chapter strategically ends with these words, which, written and sung though they are by anonymous labourers, can be heard only through Omvedt's (technological) agency. The rest, as they say, is history. The remainder of the book unsubtly suggests what Omvedt does not say explicitly--that she has accepted the leadership role thrust upon her by the initially skeptical masses.
Works
Omvedt's dissertation was on Cultural Revolt in a Colonial Society: The NonBrahman Movement in Western India, 1873-1930 (reprint of 1976 book) (New Delhi, Manohar, 2011).
Omvedt's academic writing includes numerous books and articles on class, caste and gender issues, most notably:[28]
Cultural Revolt in a Colonial Society: The NonBrahman Movement in Maharashtra (Scientific Socialist Education Trust, 1966)
"We Will Smash This Prison!.: Indian Women in Struggle " (Zed, 1980)
"Violence Against Women: New Movements And New Theories In India" (Kali for Women, 1991)
Reinventing Revolution: New Social Movements in India (M.E. Sharpe, 1993)
Gender and Technology: Emerging Asian Visions (1994)
Dalits And The Democratic Revolution: Dr. Ambedkar And The Dalit Movement In Colonial India (Sage India, 1994)
Dalit Visions: the Anticaste movement and Indian Cultural Identity (Orient Longman, 1995)
Growing Up Untouchable: A Dalit Autobiography (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000)
Buddhism in India : Challenging Brahmanism and Caste (SageIndia, 2003)
"Ambedkar: Towards an Enlightened India " (Penguin, 2005)
Seeking Begumpura: The Social Vision of Anticaste Intellectuals (New Delhi, Navayana, 2009)
"Understanding Caste: From Buddha To Ambedkar And Beyond" (New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2011)
Songs of Tukoba with Bharat Patankar she has published (translations) (Manohar, 2012)
Jotirao Phule and the Ideology of Social Revolution in India[29]
Fulbright Fellowship as Tutor in English in India, 1963-1964[5]
University of California Graduate Fellowships, 1964–65, 1965–66[30]
American Institute of Indian Studies, Junior Fellowship for PhD research in India on "The NonBrahman Movement in Maharashtra," January–December 1971[30]
American Association of University Women, Fellowship for research on "Women's Movement in India," January–December 1975[30]
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^"44th All-India Sociological Conference begins in Mysuru". The Hindu. 28 December 2018. from the original on 28 August 2021. Retrieved 28 August 2021. Sociologist and scholar Gail Omvedt said on Thursday that the world was going through a period of turmoil, with democracies being trampled by the State in various countries. She was speaking after receiving the lifetime achievement award presented on the first day of the 44th All-India Sociological Conference at St. Philomena's College here.
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Gail Omvedt 2 August 1941 25 August 2021 was an American born Indian sociologist and human rights activist 1 2 3 4 She was a prolific writer and published numerous books on the anti caste movement Dalit politics and women s struggles in India Omvedt was involved in Dalit and anti caste movements environmental farmers and women s movements especially with rural women Gail OmvedtBorn 1941 08 02 2 August 1941Minneapolis Minnesota United StatesDied25 August 2021 2021 08 25 aged 80 Kasegaon Sangli District Maharashtra IndiaOccupationWriter essayist activistAlma materCarleton CollegeUniversity of California BerkeleyPeriod1970 2021Notable worksDalits and the Democratic RevolutionSeeking BegumpuraWe Shall Smash this Prison Indian Women in StruggleReinventing Revolution New Social Movements and the Socialist Tradition in IndiaNotable awardsDr Ambedkar Chetna Award Manavwadi Rachna Manch Punjab August 2003 Savitribai Phule Puraskar Padmashri Kavivarya Narayan Surve Sarvajanik Vacanalay Nashik 2002SpouseBharat Patankar m 1976 wbr ChildrenPrachi Patankar daughter RelativesIndumati Babuji Patankar mother in law Omvedt s dissertation was titled 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 Besides undertaking many research projects she was a consultant for FAO UNDP and NOVIB and served as a Dr Ambedkar Chair Professor at NISWASS in Orissa a professor of sociology at the University of Pune and an Asian guest professor at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Copenhagen She was a senior fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library and research director of the Krantivir Babuji Patankar Sanstha Contents 1 Biography 2 Activism 3 Views 4 Controversy and criticism 4 1 Andre Beteille s criticism 4 2 Marxist critique 5 Works 6 Awards 7 See also 8 References 9 External linksBiography EditGail Omvedt was born in Minneapolis and studied at Carleton College and at UC Berkeley where she earned her PhD in sociology in 1973 When she went to India for the first time in 1963 64 she was an English tutor on a Fulbright Fellowship 5 Omveldt again came to India for research in the 1970s At that time she met her future husband Bharat Patankar and his social activist mother Indumati Patankar After marrying Bharat she lived with her husband and his extended family in a village called Kasegaon in Indian state of Maharashtra 6 She became an Indian citizen in 1983 In the years before her death she was working as a consulting sociologist on gender environment and rural development for the United Nations Development Programme UNDP Oxfam Novib NOVIB and other institutions She was a consultant for UN agencies and NGOs served as a Dr Ambedkar Chair Professor at NISWASS in Orissa a professor of sociology at the University of Pune as Asian Guest Professor at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Copenhagen and as a Senior Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library New Delhi She was a Visiting Professor and Coordinator School of Social Justice University of Pune and a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study Shimla Gail Omvedt was a former Chair Professor for the Dr B R Ambedkar Chair of Social Change and Development at IGNOU Omvedt died on 25 August 2021 in Maharashtra at the age of 80 7 8 9 Activism EditOmvedt worked with social movements in India including the Dalit and anti caste movements environmental movements farmers movements and especially with rural women She was active in Shramik Mukti Dal Stri Mukti Sangarsh Chalval which works on issues of abandoned women in Sangli and Satara districts of southern Maharashtra and the Shetkari Mahila Aghadi which works on issues of women s land rights and political power 10 Views EditGail Omvedt was an Ambedkarite scholar who contributed immensely to the anti caste movement 11 12 13 14 15 16 Omvedt was critical of the religious scriptures of Hinduism or what she specifically regarded as brahminism for what she argued is their promotion of a caste based society In addition to her criticism of their purported advocacy for the caste system Omvedt also dismissed the Hindu tradition of venerating the Vedas as holy In a 2000 open letter published in The Hindu addressed to then BJP President Bangaru Laxman she gave her perspective on the Rigveda As for the Vedas they are impressive books especially the Rg Veda But to take them as something holy Read them for yourself Most of the hymns are for success in war cattle stealing love making and the like They celebrate conquest the hymns about Indra and Vrtra sound suspiciously as if the Aryans were responsible for smashing dams built by the Indus valley people though archeologists tell us there is no evidence for direct destruction by Aryan invasion the Rg Veda gives evidence of enmity between the Aryans and those they called dasyus panis and the like 17 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 18 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 18 She called the United States a racist country and has advocated for affirmative action however she compared American positive discrimination policies favorably to those of India stating It is a sad comment on the state of Indian industrialists social consciousness that such discussions have begun in an organised way in the U S before they have been thought of in India itself 19 and with respect to perceptions of group performance in the United States and India Omvedt wrote Whereas the U S debate assumes an overall equal distribution of capacity among social groups in India the assumption seems to be that the unequal showing of different caste groups on examinations in education etc is a result of actual different capacities She on occasion supported big dam projects 20 and GMO crops 21 22 Controversy and criticism EditAndre Beteille s criticism Edit Omvedt s portrayal of caste discrimination and violence as forms of racism was opposed by the Indian government 23 and sociologists in India including Andre Beteille who while acknowledging that discrimination exists deeply opposed treating caste as a form of racism simply to protect against prejudice and discrimination describing such attempts as politically mischievous and worse scientifically nonsense 24 25 Beteille argues that In the past some groups claimed superior rights on the ground that they belonged to the Aryan race or the Teutonic race The anthropologists rejected such claims on two grounds first on the ground that within the same human species no race is superior to any other but also on the ground that there is no such thing as an Aryan race or a Teutonic race We cannot throw out the concept of race by the front door when it is misused for asserting social superiority and bring it in again through the back door to misuse it in the cause of the oppressed The metaphor of race is a dangerous weapon whether it is used for asserting white supremacy or for making demands on behalf of disadvantaged groups 26 Marxist critique Edit Omvedt was criticized for a perceived anti statist bias in her writing as well as neo liberal economic sympathies Scholars have also questioned the sincerity of her claims regarding the authenticity of her work writing 27 In this paragraph Omvedt is transformed from dangerous American outsider to revolutionary insider player of a song proclaiming We will cut the throats of the rich The chapter strategically ends with these words which written and sung though they are by anonymous labourers can be heard only through Omvedt s technological agency The rest as they say is history The remainder of the book unsubtly suggests what Omvedt does not say explicitly that she has accepted the leadership role thrust upon her by the initially skeptical masses Works EditOmvedt s dissertation was on Cultural Revolt in a Colonial Society The NonBrahman Movement in Western India 1873 1930 reprint of 1976 book New Delhi Manohar 2011 Omvedt s academic writing includes numerous books and articles on class caste and gender issues most notably 28 Cultural Revolt in a Colonial Society The NonBrahman Movement in Maharashtra Scientific Socialist Education Trust 1966 We Will Smash This Prison Indian Women in Struggle Zed 1980 Violence Against Women New Movements And New Theories In India Kali for Women 1991 Reinventing Revolution New Social Movements in India M E Sharpe 1993 Gender and Technology Emerging Asian Visions 1994 Dalits And The Democratic Revolution Dr Ambedkar And The Dalit Movement In Colonial India Sage India 1994 Dalit Visions the Anticaste movement and Indian Cultural Identity Orient Longman 1995 Growing Up Untouchable A Dalit Autobiography Rowman and Littlefield 2000 Buddhism in India Challenging Brahmanism and Caste SageIndia 2003 Ambedkar Towards an Enlightened India Penguin 2005 Seeking Begumpura The Social Vision of Anticaste Intellectuals New Delhi Navayana 2009 Understanding Caste From Buddha To Ambedkar And Beyond New Delhi Orient Blackswan 2011 Songs of Tukoba with Bharat Patankar she has published translations Manohar 2012 Jotirao Phule and the Ideology of Social Revolution in India 29 Awards EditHonorary Woodrow Wilson Fellowship 1964 65 30 Fulbright Fellowship as Tutor in English in India 1963 1964 5 University of California Graduate Fellowships 1964 65 1965 66 30 American Institute of Indian Studies Junior Fellowship for PhD research in India on The NonBrahman Movement in Maharashtra January December 1971 30 American Association of University Women Fellowship for research on Women s Movement in India January December 1975 30 Savitribai Phule Puraskar Padmashri Kavivarya Narayan Surve Sarvajanik Vacanalay Nashik 2002 10 Dr Ambedkar Chetna Award Manavwadi Rachna Manch Punjab August 2003 10 ABP Majha Sanman Purskar 2012 30 Matoshree Bhimabai Ambedkar Award 2012 10 Vitthal Ramji Shinde Award April 2015 30 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Indian Sociological Society 2018 31 32 See also EditEleanor Zelliot Forward PressReferences Edit Dutt Yashica Long Live Comrade Gail Foreign Policy Archived from the original on 15 September 2021 Retrieved 16 September 2021 India Will Remember Gail Omvedt Forever The Wire Archived from the original on 25 August 2021 Retrieved 25 August 2021 BAVADAM LYLA Gail Omvedt voice of Dalits passes away Frontline Archived from the original on 25 August 2021 Retrieved 25 August 2021 Yengde Suraj 25 August 2021 Gail Omvedt took caste to global audience that was fed only a Brahminical point of view ThePrint Archived from the original on 28 August 2021 Retrieved 28 August 2021 a b Vinoth 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Sociologist and scholar Gail Omvedt said on Thursday that the world was going through a period of turmoil with democracies being trampled by the State in various countries She was speaking after receiving the lifetime achievement award presented on the first day of the 44th All India Sociological Conference at St Philomena s College here External links EditThis section s use of external links may not follow Wikipedia s policies or guidelines Please improve this article by removing excessive or inappropriate external links and converting useful links where appropriate into footnote references March 2022 Learn how and when to remove this template message Blog by Gail Omvedt Profile of Gail Omvedt UC Berkeley sociology website Profile of Gail Omvedt University of Michigan website Profile of Gail Omvedt Sage Publication Profile of Gail Omvedt Center for the Advanced Study of India University of Pennsylvania Gail Omvedt An Open Letter To Arundhati Roy Gail Omvedt The Hindutva bomb published 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