Dhobis of Delhi covers more than forty years of interactions with an 'untouchable' caste--the Dhobis (washermen and washerwomen), who are among Delhi's oldest inhabitants, describing their ways of life, economy, livelihood, struggles, and adaptation to the city's changing demographic, cultural, and politico-economic profile. Understanding how a community defines and locates itself through its experiential realities in a layered and diverse context is challenging. Unheard voices and invisible realities create a disconnect between the researcher and the research. In this commendable work, Channa, an eminent anthropologist, captures the community's lifeworld, aspirations, pain, and numerous explicit and implicit transitions with the changing city and how its embodiments in a self-reflective claim form a history. It delves deep to unravel the constructs ingrained in their collective memories and captures not just the voices but also the changes that have transpired. It is a must-read work to grasp how a community, with its resilience and viability against all odds, becomes a knowable entity in a larger framework of given space and time.