Researcher, author Gail Omvedt passes away

Researcher, writer and one of many mental voices of the Bahujan motion Dr. Gail Omvedt handed away.

Dr. Omvedt was an American-born Indian scholar who authored books on Dalit politics, girls’s wrestle and the anti-caste motion.

She participated in numerous folks’s actions throughout the nation, together with the motion for the rights of the Koyna-dam displaced folks.

She co-founded the Shramik Mukti Dal alongside together with her husband and activist Bharat Patankar. Dr. Omvedt’s daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter are settled within the U.S.