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Arguing History, Deciphering Untouchability

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Book Review by Dr.Narendra K. Arya 29 November, 2012 http://www.countercurrents.org/arya291112.htm   Book Reviewed: Reconsidering Untouchability: Chamars and Dalit History in North India Author: Ramnarayan S. Rawat , University of Delaware, USA Publisher: Permanent Black, Mall Road, Ranikhet, (Uttrakhand), 2012, Rs.695 (HB) Marketed by Orient Blackswan, India   “History is after all nothing but a pack of tricks which we play upon the dead” and we transform the past to suit our wishes to future and in upshot “history proves that anything can be proved by history.”                                                                ...