Kanshi Ram believed that by forcing Ambedkar to sign the Poona Pact on 24 September 1932, Gandhi pushed the Untouchables into the ‘Chamcha Yug’ (The era of stooges). Kanshi Ram’s only book, Chamcha Yug, dwells on the nature and the form of the post-Poona-Pact Dalit politics. Alakh Niranjan throws light on the significance of this book