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Biography

I am a historian of South Asia with particular interests in colonial and postcolonial India, racism and social exclusion, subaltern histories, and histories of democracy. My research focuses on Dalits (鈥榰ntouchables鈥�) of India and their engagement with colonialism, nationalism, spatial and social exclusionary regimes, and democratic thought and practice in modern India. I have recently finished a co-edited book,听Dalit Studies, with my colleague K. Satyanarayana based in Hyderabad (India),听 Duke University Press, 2016. I am currently writing a second book, 鈥楾he Dalit Public Sphere: A Subaltern history Liberalism and Democratic Practices鈥� which explores the role of Dalit groups in introducing innovative ideas and practices in the history of liberal thought. The second book project has received generous support from the Smuts Visiting Fellowship, University of Cambridge, the American Council of Learned Societies鈥� Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship, and the Senior Fellowship from the American Institute of Indian Studies.

My first book, Reconsidering Untouchability: Chamars and Dalit History in North India (Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2012 & Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011), is the recipient of Joseph Elder book prize awarded by American Institute of Indian Studies (2009) and received 鈥楬onorable Mention鈥� in 2013 Association of Asian Studies Bernard S. Cohn book prize. Building on extensive archival and ethnographic fieldwork,听Reconsidering Untouchability听questioned the association of untouchability with impure occupations by effectively demonstrating that Dalits were historically cultivators who were primarily engaged in agricultural production in north India. It examined the social and cultural politics and Hindi-language writings of Dalit activists and organizations from the early part of the twentieth century to demonstrate that their struggles over identity marked the beginning of a new politics.

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Education

I received my B.A from the University of Delhi, where I also completed M.A. and M.Phil (1996). I received my doctorate under a joint doctoral program from the University of Delhi and the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam (2006). My doctoral research was supported by a Harry Frank Guggenheim dissertation fellowship (2003), and the four-year SEPHIS fellowship (1999-2002) awarded by The Netherlands.

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Publications

Books:

South Asian edition of听Reconsidering Untouchability: Chamars and Dalits in North India听(Ranikhet (India): Permanent Black, 2012)

Reconsidering Untouchability: Chamars and Dalit History in North India听(Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2012 & Bloomington; Indiana University Press, 2011)

Edited Volumes

Ramnarayan S Rawat and K. Satyanarayana, editors,听Dalit Studies听(Durham: Duke University Press, Spring 2016)

Articles and Book Chapters

Ramnarayan Rawat and K. Satyanarayana, 鈥淚ntroduction,鈥� in Rawat and Satyanarayana, (ed.),听Dalit Studies. Duke University Press, Spring 2016.

Ramnarayan Rawat, 鈥淐olonial Archive versus Colonial Sociology: Writing North Indian Dalit History,鈥� in Rawat and Satyanarayana, (ed.),听Dalit Studies. Duke University Press, Spring 2016.

鈥淪truggle for Identities: Chamar Histories and Politics,鈥� in Sumit Sarkar & Tanika Sarkar (ed.),听Caste Reader(Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2013)