The authors have produced the <i>Atlas of Women and Men in India, </i>using material from the 1991 Census, mainly at district level. The Atlas may be unacceptable to Indian geographers because it seeks to question the authority of numerical data and of maps, and to Western geographers because this is...

This paper covers several key issues relating to women and gender in post-1947 India. A detailed discussion on the construction of 'women' by colonial and anticolonial forces prior to Independence helps place the post-Independence period in context. Because the issues are complex and...