Omvedt, born in Minneapolis on August 2, 1941, first came to India in the early 1960s for a brief period. The funeral ceremony will be performed today in the premises of the Krantiveer Babuji Patankar Sanstha, Kasegaon.Ī young Gail Omvedt. Even as her health began to drastically deteriorate in the past decade, Omvedt remained active – participating in many public rallies, meetings and academic deliberations. Her simple, straightforward and brutally honest scholarship has resonated with many, more particularly Bahujan communities with whom she worked for over five decades.Īn academic, human rights activist and a political thinker who produced a vast body of scholarship with an incisive anti-caste, Ambedkarite, Buddhist perspective, Omvedt died on August 25 at her home in Kasegaon in Sangli district of Maharashtra, due to prolonged age-related illnesses. But they all had one common thread: the accessibility that Omvedt offered – both as an individual and a scholarly thinker. Some talked of her childhood, others of her participation in the people’s movement in India. The anecdotes were unique, each sharing instances of how they had interacted and collaborated with Omvedt at different times in life. Prachi invited Omvedt’s old friends, relatives back in the US, her students and fellow activists who are deeply influenced and moved by Omvedt’s five-decade-long contribution to the vibrant anti-caste discourse in the Indian subcontinent to join her. Early this month, sociologist and anti-caste crusader Gail Omvedt’s daughter Prachi Patankar began posting a series of “appreciation posts” for her mother on Facebook.
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