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stigma of rape... flung right back at the oppressors’ (2). In the last chapter, ‘Impunity of Law and Custom’, Pratiksha Baxi brings forth how courts have been introducing ‘hyper technicalities’ (322), which hollow the law of its constitutional content and allow the perpetrators of sex crimes to go unpunished, while relegating violence against Dalits and other impoverished groups to the background. The book also explores sexual violence through the caste lens. A detailed analysis of caste-based sexual violence, however, should be the focus of a separate project, instead of being hastily highlighted in the last two chapters. Fault Lines of History breaks the barriers of silence regarding the state’s role as a perpetrator of violence in South Asia. It marks an important step for South Asian feminist scholarship, as it attempts to bridge the gap between academia and activism and examine the gendered workings of state institutions.