"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"
— Gail Omvedt

January 1, 1970

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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