<p>United States-born Indian scholar, activist and writer Dr Gail Omvedt passed away at Kasegaon in Sangli district on Wednesday.</p>.<p>The Dalit-Bahujan, Adivasis, women and human rights champion was 81.</p>.<p>She is survived by her husband Dr Bharat Patankar, daughter Prachi, son-in-law Tejaswi and granddaughter Nia, who have settled in the US.</p>.<p>Omvedt had been associated with the Shramik Mukti Dal, which follows an ideology not simply based on Marxism but on Marx-Phule-Ambedkarism. </p>.<p>Omvedt's dissertation was titled "Cultural Revolt in a Colonial Society: The Non-Brahman Movement in Western India, 1873-1930".</p>.<p>Besides having undertaken many research projects, Dr Omvedt has been a consultant for FAO, UNDP and NOVIB and has served as a Dr Ambedkar Chair Professor at NISWASS in Odisha, a professor of sociology at the Savitribai Phule Pune University and an Asian guest professor at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen.</p>.<p>She was a senior fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library and research director of the Krantivir Trust. </p>.<p>An Indian citizen since 1983, Dr Omvedt was born in Minneapolis and studied at Carleton College and at UC Berkeley where she earned her PhD in sociology in 1973. </p>
<p>United States-born Indian scholar, activist and writer Dr Gail Omvedt passed away at Kasegaon in Sangli district on Wednesday.</p>.<p>The Dalit-Bahujan, Adivasis, women and human rights champion was 81.</p>.<p>She is survived by her husband Dr Bharat Patankar, daughter Prachi, son-in-law Tejaswi and granddaughter Nia, who have settled in the US.</p>.<p>Omvedt had been associated with the Shramik Mukti Dal, which follows an ideology not simply based on Marxism but on Marx-Phule-Ambedkarism. </p>.<p>Omvedt's dissertation was titled "Cultural Revolt in a Colonial Society: The Non-Brahman Movement in Western India, 1873-1930".</p>.<p>Besides having undertaken many research projects, Dr Omvedt has been a consultant for FAO, UNDP and NOVIB and has served as a Dr Ambedkar Chair Professor at NISWASS in Odisha, a professor of sociology at the Savitribai Phule Pune University and an Asian guest professor at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen.</p>.<p>She was a senior fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library and research director of the Krantivir Trust. </p>.<p>An Indian citizen since 1983, Dr Omvedt was born in Minneapolis and studied at Carleton College and at UC Berkeley where she earned her PhD in sociology in 1973. </p>