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Reconsidering Untouchability: Chamars and Dalit History in North India
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by Ramnarayan S. Rawat


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Often identified as leatherworkers or characterized as a criminal caste, Chamars of North India have long been stigmatized as untouchables. In this pathbreaking study, Ramnarayan S. Rawat shows that in fact the majority of Chamars have always been agriculturalists, and their association with the ritually impure occupation of leatherworking has largely been constructed through Hindu, colonial, and postcolonial representations of untouchability. Rawat undertakes a comprehensive reconsideration of the history, identity, and politics of this important Dalit group. Using Dalit vernacular literature, local-level archival sources, and interviews in Dalit neighborhoods, he reveals a previously unrecognized Dalit movement which has flourished in North India from the earliest decades of the 20th century and which has recently achieved major political successes.

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  • Title Reconsidering Untouchability: Chamars and Dalit History in North India
  • Author Ramnarayan S. Rawat
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First
  • Pages 298
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Indiana University Press, Bloomingtonn
  • Date 2011-03-23
  • ISBN 9780253222626 / 0253222621
  • Weight 0.97 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.62 x 7.41 x 0.86 in (21.89 x 18.82 x 2.18 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
    • Cultural Region: Indian
    • Ethnic Orientation: Indian
  • Library of Congress subjects Chamars - India, North - History, Chamars - India, North - Ethnic identity
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.568

About the author

Ramnarayan S. Rawat is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Delaware.

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