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'''Divya Dwivedi''' is an Indian [[philosopher]]<ref name="elle.in">{{Cite web|title=#ELLEVoices: Divya Dwivedi On How She Is #ImaginingTheWorldToBe|url=https://elle.in/article/voices-divya-dwivedi/|access-date=2021-01-14|website=Elle India|language=en-US}}</ref> and author. She is an associate professor at the [[Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi]]. Her work includes a focus on [[philosophy of literature]], [[aesthetics]], [[Philosophy of psychology|philosophy of psychoanalysis]], [[narratology]], revolutionary theory,<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Dwivedi |first1=Divya |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gVwBEQAAQBAJ&q=%E2%80%9Ctheory+of+revolution%E2%80%9D&pg=PT4 |title=Indian Philosophy, Indian Revolution: On Caste and Politics |last2=Mohan |first2=Shaj |date=2024-04-11 |publisher=Hurst Publishers |isbn=978-1-80526-174-2 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":3" /> critical philosophy of caste and race, and the [[Practices and beliefs of Mahatma Gandhi|political thought of Gandhi]].<ref name=":0" /> She is the co-author of ''[[Gandhi and Philosophy: On Theological Anti-politics]]'' and ''Indian Philosophy, Indian Revolution: On Caste and Politics.''
==Early life and education ==
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===Indian Philosophy, Indian Revolution: On Caste and Politics===
''Indian Philosophy, Indian Revolution: On Caste and Politics'' is a book Divya Dwivedi co-authored with [[Shaj Mohan]], published by [[C. Hurst & Co.|Hurst Publishers]] in the United Kingdom and Westland for India in 2024.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=An Anthology of Anti-Caste Essays and the Question of Who Gets to Kill Whom |url=https://thewire.in/books/an-anthology-of-anti-caste-essays-and-the-question-of-who-gets-to-kill-whom |access-date=2024-05-09 |website=thewire.in}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite book |last1=Dwivedi |first1=Divya |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gVwBEQAAQBAJ |title=Indian Philosophy, Indian Revolution: On Caste and Politics |last2=Mohan |first2=Shaj |date=2024-04-11 |publisher=Hurst Publishers |isbn=978-1-80526-174-2 |language=en}}</ref> It was introduced, edited, and annotated with a philosophical [[glossary]] by Maël Montévil who is a theoretical biologist and philosopher of science working at the [[École normale supérieure (Paris)|École normale supérieure, Paris]]. The book is a collection of essays and interviews that deal with topics including the theoretical basis for caste oppression, Hindu nationalism, [[philosophy of history]] and [[revolution]]. Henrik Schedin said in Parabol Magazine that this book radically transforms the way India and Indian politics are understood.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Religion döljer klass i Narendra Modis Indien |url=https://www.parabol.press/religion-doljer-klass-i-narendra-modis-indien/ |access-date=2024-05-09 |website=Parabol |language=sv-SE}}</ref>
The review in [[Contemporary Political Theory]] focused on the global implications and the theoretical aspects of Indian Philosophy, Indian Revolution. The complicity of “western academia” in “a new global system of exploitation” is a theme in the book. As per ''Contemporary Political Theory'', “Western academia (not just philosophy) should listen today if it wants to be prepared for tomorrow.”<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Perica |first=Ivana |date=2024-10-03 |title=Indian Philosophy, Indian Revolution: On Caste and Politics |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41296-024-00727-8 |journal=Contemporary Political Theory |language=en |doi=10.1057/s41296-024-00727-8 |issn=1476-9336}}</ref>
Lakshmi Subramanian in her review for [[The Telegraph (India)|The Telegraph]] and other reviewers summarised the political arguments of the book as against “upper caste supremacism” of all kinds.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Subramanian |first=Lakshmi |date=12 July 2024 |title=A courageous scrutiny |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/amp/culture/books/a-courageous-scrutiny-this-collection-of-essays-short-pieces-and-interviews-is-an-exercise-in-exemplary-courage-the-courage-to-call-out-the-authoritarianism-of-the-regime-and-the-inequities-of-cast/cid/2033160 |access-date=14 July 2024 |work=The Telegraph India}}</ref> Subramanian wrote that ''Indian Philosophy, Indian Revolution'' calls out the construction of Hindu religion in the 20th century by the upper castes of India as a ploy to hide lower caste majority and suppress their desire to come to power. Through the category of Hindu religion “upper caste supremacism that was able to effectively control and dominate subaltern society”. She added that “caste lines permeated all religions in the subcontinent”.
The theoretical framework of the book goes beyond the Indian context as [[Slavoj Žižek]] said that it is a “required reading for anyone who wants to understand the precipice toward which our entire world is heading ... a book for everyone who seriously wants to think”.<ref>{{Cite web |title=An Anthology of Anti-Caste Essays and the Question of Who Gets to Kill Whom |url=https://thewire.in/books/an-anthology-of-anti-caste-essays-and-the-question-of-who-gets-to-kill-whom |access-date=2024-05-09 |website=thewire.in}}</ref> [[Robert Bernasconi]] said that the world should “listen and learn” from it since “Not since the days of [[Jean-Paul Sartre|Sartre]] has philosophy addressed political issues with the directness and clarity that Dwivedi and Mohan”.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Indian Philosophy, Indian Revolution {{!}} Hurst Publishers |url=https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/indian-philosophy-indian-revolution/ |access-date=2024-05-09 |website=HURST |language=en-GB}}</ref>
The revolutionary core of the book was noted in a review in The Wire as “committed to the revolutionary anti-caste project” and that its goal is to lead the lower caste majority to political power in all areas of life.<ref name=":1" /> [[Mathrubhumi]] stated that it was a book of revolutionary theory and is a “call for an unambiguous rise to power in all areas of political and social life from the Dalit-Bahujan majority through an understanding of a revolutionary theory”.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |date=2024-06-08 |title=Dissecting the politics of caste {{!}} Book review |url=https://english.mathrubhumi.com/amp/features/books/book-review-of-indian-philosophy-indian-revolution-on-caste-and-politics-1.9621316 |access-date=2024-06-27 |website=English.Mathrubhumi}}</ref> The review by Aarushi Punia in Maktoob Media credited the book with producing the concepts and theoretical tools to diagnose caste oppression, to form a majority and it is “imagining a way in which lower castes, who affirmatively form over 90% of the population, can seize power”.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Punia |first=Aarushi |date=2024-04-25 |title=Polynomial Politics: Imagining India as a Country Led by Lower Castes |url=https://maktoobmedia.com/more/bookshelf/polynomial-politics-imagining-india-as-a-country-led-by-lower-castes/ |access-date=2024-05-09 |website=Maktoob media |language=en-US}}</ref> The theory of history in the book was described by The Wire as a new model for [[historiography]] without recourse to “ancestral models” such as would be the “Aryan doctrine”. Jérôme Lèbre wrote in a long form essay for the French journal AOC Media that the book's concepts and arguments are related to the other works of the authors. It shows the development of concepts and political strategies for theoretically discussing caste oppression side by side.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lèbre |first=Jérôme |date=2024-05-09 |title=En finir avec l'hindouisme, révolutionner l'Inde : la philosophie de Divya Dwivedi et Shaj Mohan - AOC media |url=https://aoc.media/analyse/2024/05/09/en-finir-avec-lhindouisme-revolutionner-linde-la-philosophie-de-divya-dwivedi-et-shaj-mohan/ |access-date=2024-05-09 |website=AOC media - Analyse Opinion Critique |language=fr-FR}}</ref>
== Public commentary==
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