Sharmila Rege

Sharmila Rege
Born(1964-10-07)7 October 1964
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Died13 July 2013(2013-07-13) (aged 48)
Pune
NationalityIndian
Occupation(s)Sociologist, writer, feminist

Sharmila Rege (7 October 1964 – 13 July 2013)[1] was an Indian sociologist, feminist scholar and author of Writing Caste, Writing Gender.[2] She led the Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule Women's Studies Centre, (the department of Gender Studies) at University of Pune which position she occupied since 1991.[3] She received the Malcolm Adiseshiah award for distinguished contribution to development studies from the Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS) in 2006.[4]

  1. ^ Trivedi, Divya (13 July 2013). "Sociologist who studied intersection of gender, caste". The Hindu. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
  2. ^ Rege, Sharmila (2 July 2006). Writing caste, writing gender: reading Dalit women's testimonios. Zubaan. ISBN 978-81-89013-01-1. Retrieved 27 September 2011.
  3. ^ Unacknowledged. "Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule Women's Studies Centre, University of Pune". University of Pune. Retrieved 26 September 2011.
  4. ^ Rege, Sharmila (22 November 2006). "Dalit studies must move across disciplines: Sharmila Rege". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 23 August 2007. Retrieved 26 September 2011.