books.google.co.in - Often identified as leatherworkers or characterized as a criminal caste, 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...http://books.google.co.in/books/about/Reconsidering_untouchability.html?id=bz5dKC81O3IC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareReconsidering untouchability