Gail Omvedt (1941-2021) was a scholar-activist who worked with new social movements, especially women's groups and farmers' organisations. A PhD from the University of California, Professor Omvedt held the Dr Ambedkar Chair for Social Change and Development at the Indira Gandhi National Open University. She was a citizen of India from 1982. She was actively involved in anti-caste campaigns from the 1970s onwards. Her academic writings include several books and articles on class, caste and gender issues, and included the books, Reinventing Revolution: New Social Movements in India (1993) and Dalits and the Democratic Revolution (1994). She was a consulting sociologist on gender, environment and rural development and lived in Kasegaon in southern Maharashtra.

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1. Bharat ki Do Mahaan Paramparayein aur Hinduvaad ka Nirman (The Two Great Traditions of India and the Construction of Hinduism)
2. Hindu Dharm se Pahle: Baudh Dharm ke Siddhant (Before ‘Hinduism’: The Buddhist Vision)
3. Hindu Dharm se Purv: Bhakti ki Anuraagmayi Dhara (Before Hinduism: The Devotional Visions of Bhakti)
4. Brahamnvaadi Shosan ke Roop mein Hindu Dharm: Jotiba Phule(Hinduism as Brahman Exploitation: Jotiba Phule)
5. Pitrasatta ke Roop mein Hinduvaad: Ramabai, Tarabai aur Prarambhik Naarivaadi (Hinduism as Patriarchy: Ramabai, Tarabai and the Early Feminists)
6. Aarya Vijay ke Roop mein Hinduvaad(Hinduism as Aryan Conquest: The Dalit Radicals of the 1920s)
7. Pratikranti ke Roop mein Hinduvaad: B. R. Ambedkar (Hinduism as Counter-Revolution: B. R. Ambedkar)
8. Dillli Shasan ke Roop mein Hindu Dharm(Hinduism as Delhi Rule: Periyar and the National Question)
9. Swatantra Bharat: Bramnvaadi Samajvaad, Brahmanvaadi Bhumandalikaran(Independent India: Brahmanic Socialism, Brahmanic Globalisation)
10. Hinduvaad Samanvaadi Pichhdepan ke Roop mein: Dalit Panthers(Hinduism as Feudal Backwardness: The Dalit Panthers)
11. Dalit Rajniti ka Tark(The Logic of Dalit Politics)
12. Bahujan Samaj Party ka Uday(The Rise of the Bahujan Samaj Party)

Nishkarsh  (CONCLUSION)
Sita ka Shaap, Shambuk ki Chuppi (Sita’s Curse, Shambuk’s Silence)
Sandarbhgranth Soochi (BIBLIOGRAPHY)
Sanstut Pustakein (RECOMMENDED READINGS)
Anukramanika (INDEX)