Reconsidering untouchability: chamars and dalit history in North India

By:

Rawat, Ramnarayan S

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Ranikhet Permanent Black 2010Description: 272pISBN:

9788178243559

Subject(s):

Chamars

DDC classification:

305.5688 RAW

Summary: often identified as leatherworkers or characterized as a criminal caste, the 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 twentieth century and which has recently achieved major political successes

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often identified as leatherworkers or characterized as a criminal caste, the 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 twentieth century and which has recently achieved major political successes

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