Sharmila Rege | |
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Born | Pune, Maharashtra, India | 7 October 1964
Died | 13 July 2013 Pune | (aged 48)
Nationality | Indian |
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]