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This reader is a compilation of eighteen essays written by academics, feminists and scholar-activists from a Dalit Feminist Perspective. The editors Sunaina Arya and Aakash Singh Rathore, introduces the book by theorizing Dalit feminism underpinning its ontology and epistemology. Critiquing the academic discourse of feminism which predominantly questions gender inequality on a single axis as a fight against patriarchy, Arya and Rathore pose the important question, 'Why Dalit Feminist Theory?'. Although the dialogue on Dalit Feminist standpoints started during the 1990s, the core of the book lies in attempting to legitimize Dalit Feminist Theory due to the ubiquity of caste question in Indian society, which cannot be overlooked in any circumstances. Thus, the book revisits the Indian Feminist discourse for feminists to critique the gatekeeping that 'upper caste' privileged feminists did to represent the issues of all women by homogenizing the category of a woman based on a few percentages of upper caste women leaving out Dalit, Bahujan, Adivasi and minority women who forms a much larger percentage in comparison. The book is an important read due to its critical engagement and initiation of a dialogue with Indian feminists to argue the need for Dalit Feminist Theory in reshaping Indian feminist discourse.

Contents Editorial, Paul-Erik Korvela, 5 Johan Strang, The rhetoric of analytic philosophy. The making of the analytic hegemony in Swedish 20th century philosophy, 11 Esther Abin, Political Realism, Contingency and Philosophy, 39 Annabel Herzog, Representing Political Subjectivity: Cameron's Avatar and McCarthy's The Road, 61 Benoît Godin, The Politics of Innovation:The Controversy on Republicanism in Seventeenth Century England, 77 Mika Ojakangas, Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau on Liberty and Slavery of Conscience in the Context of Christian Political Theology, 106 Henk te Velde, Parliamentary Obstruction and the "Crisis" of European Parliamentary Politics around 1900, 125 REVIEW ARTICLES Peter Stone, A Renaissance for Random Selection?, 148 Olivia Guaraldo, Totalitarianism and the Social Sciences: Revisiting a "Forgotten Debate" , 160 Suvi Soininen, Conversations with Michael Oakeshott – An Interlude to Oakeshott Scholarship A Companion to Michael Oakeshott, 172 REVIEWS Helge Jordheim, Reinhart Koselleck: Vom Sinn und Unsinn der Geschichte 2010, 188 Moya Lloyd, Sara Ahmed, The Promise of Happiness, Durham, Duke University Press, 2009, 200 Emilia Palonen, Michael J. Shapiro: The Time of the City: Politics, Philosophy and Genre, Routledge 2010, 208 Kari Palonen, The Life and Work of Reinhart Koselleck (Niklas Olsen, History in the Plural. An Introduction to the Work of Reinhart Koselleck. New York: Berghahn Press 2012, 338 p.), 215 Tuula Vaarakallio, Ilie, Cornelia (ed.), European Parliaments under Scrutiny. Discourse strategies and interaction practices, 222 Affiliations, 230

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