Ramnarayan Rawat (also spelled Ram Narayan Rawat and Ram Rawat) is an Associate Professor of History at the

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and a historian of the

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and has also had appointments at the

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(as a postdoctoral scholar) and

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. He received his B.A. and Ph.D. from the

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. He has conducted research on the

Chamar Chamar (or Jatav) is a community classified as a Scheduled Caste under modern India's Reservation in India, system of affirmative action that originated from the group of trade persons who were involved in leather tanning and shoemaking. They a ...

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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