Ramnarayan Rawat

 ( University Of Delaware Faculty ) 

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 subcontinent Ramnarayan Rawat - University of Delaware and has also had appointments at the University of Pennsylvania (as a postdoctoral scholar) Ramnarayan S. Rawat Center for the Advanced Study of India (Penn) 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. New view of 'untouchables' UDel Daily - 29 September 2011 Aspirations of Chamars in North India The Hindu - 20 February 2012 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.