{"id":37467,"date":"2021-09-29T16:30:45","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T07:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/sep\/29\/gail-omvedt-us-sociologist-who-lived-by-her-principles-among-indias-poor"},"modified":"2021-09-29T16:30:45","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T07:30:45","slug":"gail-omvedt-us-sociologist-who-lived-by-her-principles-among-indias-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37467","title":{"rendered":"Gail Omvedt: US sociologist who \u2018lived by her principles\u2019 among India\u2019s poor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The respected academic, who has died aged 80, was a leading anti-caste campaigner and fought tirelessly for women\u2019s rights<\/p>\n<p>At the village of Kasegaon, in India\u2019s rural western region of Maharashtra, huge crowds turned up for the funeral in August of a US-born, white sociologist whom many local people saw as one of their own.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the mourners were Dalits, who belong to the lowest caste in Indian society, previously deemed \u201cuntouchables\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/sep\/29\/gail-omvedt-us-sociologist-who-lived-by-her-principles-among-indias-poor\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The respected academic, who has died aged 80, was a leading anti-caste campaigner and fought tirelessly for women\u2019s rightsAt the village of Kasegaon, in India\u2019s rural western region of Maharashtra, huge crowds turned up for the funeral in August of a U&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1128,59,53,62,61,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dalits","category-global-development","category-human-rights","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37468,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37467\/revisions\/37468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}