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Past Member

Ramnarayan Singh Rawat

George F. Kennan Member

Affiliation

Historical Studies

Field of Study

South Asia, Liberalism, Race and Caste
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At IAS, Ramnarayan Singh Rawat will complete his book manuscript, “The Language of Liberalism: The Dalit Public Sphere in Late British India,” which intervenes within the debates on liberalism and empire by introducing uniquely Hindi liberal concepts created by Dalit poet-activists to interpret core ideas relating to representative government.

Dates at IAS

Member
School of Historical Studies
Fall

Degrees

University of Delhi
Ph.D.
2006

Honors

2019-2020
Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge
2018-2019
Regional Faculty Fellowship, Wolf Humanities Center, University of Pennsylvania
2015-2016
Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship, American Council for Learned Societies
2014-2015
Smuts Visiting Research Fellowship in Commonwealth Studies, University of Cambridge
2008-2009
American Institute of Indian Studies Senior Long Term Fellowship, India
2013
Honorable Mention, Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize awarded by the Association of Asian Studies for Reconsidering Untouchability: Chamars and Dalits in North India
2008
Book Prize: The Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences from the American Institute of Indian Studies (Chicago)
1999-2003
SEPHIS Doctoral Fellowship, International Institute of Social History (IISG), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, South-South Exchange Programme for Research on the History of Development

Appointments

University of Delaware
2014
Associate Professor