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'''Uma Bhatt''' (born c.1952) is an Indian scholar, writer, and founder-editor of a magazine for women. She is involved in political issues in her home state of [[Uttarakhand]]

== Magazine ==
In 1990 she founded the magazine ''Uttara'' which is "women-centric".<ref name=TH>[http://www.thehindu.com/features/magazine/an-equal-gender/article5764248.ece An equal gender, ''The Hindu'', 13 March 2014]</ref> As well as publishing poetry and fiction it addresses social issues in Uttarakhand, and features the stories of "ordinary" women who have dared to challenge taboos.<ref name=TH/> While Bhatt has been said to "spearhead" the project,<ref name=TH/> there were also co-founders [[Kamla Pant]], Basanti Pathak, and Sheela Rajwar.

== Politics ==
In the 1980s Bhatt wrote a six-page article for the feminist magazine ''[[Manushi]]'' about the "Anti Liquor Movement in Uttarakhand": a campaign involving women who felt strongly about the negative effects of the alcohol business on family budgets and women's safety.<ref>[http://www.manushi-india.org/pdfs_issues/pdf-files-24/2.%20Give%20Us%20Employment.pdf Uma Bhatt, "Give Us Employment, Not Liquor", ''Manushi'' Vol 24]</ref> Women from this popular campaign were encouraged in the 1990s to support the [[Uttarakhand movement|movement to separate]] from [[Uttar Pradesh]], which in 2000 led to an independent Uttarakhand. Bhatt has said they were betrayed by male politicians who made promises about several issues of great concern to women but who then backtracked. She also criticised the way men expected the women who had contributed to the independence movement to go back to a less politically active life once the new state was established.<ref>[http://www.telegraphindia.com/1020205/national.htm ''Telegraph of India'', 4 Feb 2002]</ref>

== Scholarship ==
Dr. Uma Bhatt is a linguist in the Department of [[Hindi]] at [[Kumaon University]], [[Nainital]], with a specialist knowledge of [[Himalayas|Himalayan]] languages. She co-edited ''The Languages of Uttarakhand'' as part of the [[People's Linguistic Survey of India]].<ref>[http://www.orientblackswan.com/BookDescription.aspx?isbn=978-81-250-5626-3&seriesid=191&t=series ''The Languages of Uttarakhand'', Volume 30, 2015]</ref> This is a series studying both current and dying languages in India. The publisher says the work "addresses the need to look at the languages of indigenous people, minority communities, and the marginalised."<ref>[http://www.orientblackswan.com/display_seriesbooks?id=191 People’s Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI)]</ref> Her fellow editor on this project was [[Shekhar Pathak]], a historian, who is her husband.<ref>[http://www.orientblackswan.com/downloads/PLSI_Volumes_List.pdf List of PLSI volumes]</ref> They have also co-authored a book about the 19th century explorer [[Nain Singh]].<ref>[http://uttarakhand.org/2007/01/subject-book-release-on-greatest-19th-century-explorer-pundit-nain-singh-rawat-4-feb-7/ ''Pundit Nain Singh Rawat (1830-1895): Life, Explorations and Writings'', 2007]</ref>

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