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Ramnarayan Rawat

Ramnarayan Rawat is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Delaware and a historian of the Indian subcontinent and has also had appointments at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Washington. He received his B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Delhi. He has conducted research on the Chamar caste in India, and displayed that their work centred on agriculture and not tanning as previously thought. He is the author of the book Reconsidering Untouchability: Chamars and Dalit History in North India and has co-edited the volume Dalit Studies with K. Satyanarayana. He is currently working on his second book entitled Parallel Publics: A History of Indian Democracy.

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Ramnarayan Rawat (also spelled Ram Narayan Rawat and Ram Rawat) is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Delaware and a historian of the Indian subcontinent1 and has also had appointments at the University of Pennsylvania (as a postdoctoral scholar)2 and University of Washington. He received his B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Delhi. He has conducted research on the Chamar caste in India, and displayed that their work centred on agriculture and not tanning as previously thought.34 He is the author of the book Reconsidering Untouchability: Chamars and Dalit History in North India and has co-edited the volume Dalit Studies with K. Satyanarayana.5 He is currently working on his second book entitled Parallel Publics: A History of Indian Democracy.6

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  1. Ramnarayan Rawat - University of Delaware
  2. Ramnarayan S. Rawat Archived 10 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine Center for the Advanced Study of India (Penn)
  3. New view of 'untouchables' UDel Daily - 29 September 2011
  4. Aspirations of Chamars in North India The Hindu - 20 February 2012
  5. "Personnel". www.history.udel.edu. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  6. "The Rise of Dalit Studies and Its Impact on the Study of India: An Interview with Historian Ramnarayan Rawat | Perspectives on History | AHA". www.historians.org. Retrieved 9 December 2023.