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- ↑ Ramnarayan S. Rawat Center for the Advanced Study of India (Penn)
- ↑ New view of 'untouchables' UDel Daily - 29 September 2011
- ↑ Aspirations of Chamars in North India The Hindu - 20 February 2012
- ↑ When a community can be called names, and when it cannot Indian Express - 21 July 2011
- ↑ "Personnel". www.history.udel.edu. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
- ↑ "The Rise of Dalit Studies and Its Impact on the Study of India: An Interview with Historian Ramnarayan Rawat | Perspectives on History | AHA". www.historians.org. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
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