"Such a position authorizes Omvedt’s recent pro-liberalization stance: neo-colonialism and economic dependency are abstract, academic concepts irrelevant to the lives of the peasant masses. 140"
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Natrajan, Balmurli, Ciarán ó Faoláin, and Kavita Philip. ‘SAPs, Dust, and Hot Air: Gail Omvedt and Liberalization’. Ghadar, November 1998. quoted from Malhotra, R., Nīlakantan, A. (2011). Breaking India: Western interventions in Dravidian and Dalit faultlines
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Gail Omvedt
Gail Omvedt (2 August 1941 – 25 August 2021) was an American-born Indian sociologist and human rights activist.
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