Author:Gail Omvedt

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Dalit Visions: The Anti-Caste Movement and the Construction of an Indian Identity (Revised Edition)

By: Gail Omvedt

Price: $10.50

Publisher: New Delhi, India, Orient BlackSwan: 2005

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 029104

ISBN: 8125028951

Condition: New

Printed Pages: 119. View more info

Cultural Revolt in a Colonial Society:The Non-Brahman Movement in Western India

By: Gail Omvedt

Price: $34.30

Publisher: New, Manohar Publishers & Distributors: 2011

Seller ID: 1200825

ISBN: 8173049270

Condition: New

Printed Pages: 332 View more info

Understanding Caste: From Buddha to Ambedkar and Beyond (Second Edition)

By: Gail Omvedt

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Publisher: New Delhi, India, Orient BlackSwan: 2012

Edition: Second Edition

Seller ID: 101803

ISBN: 8125045732

Condition: New

Understanding Caste approaches the historical issue of caste and anti-caste movements from a position of insightful inquiry and rigorous scholarship. Critiquing the sensibility which equates Indian tradition with Hinduism, and Hinduism with Brahmanism—which considers the Vedas as the foundational texts of Indian culture and discovers within the Aryan heritage the essence of Indian civilisation—it shows how even secular minds remain imprisoned within the Brahmanical vision. And so it looks at the alternative traditions nurtured within dalit movements, which have questioned this way of looki... View more info