ABSTRACT
India was subject to extensive Western, primarily British, influence from the middle of the eighteenth century onward. After the Americas, this was the second great Western-dominated colonial area to emerge. The Indian case, correspondingly, deserves comparison with the Americas. It was in fact quite different: India was an established agricultural civilization able to resist Western example far more successfully than Native Americans, and on the whole the Europeans involved were more hesitant in trying to impose their gender views. Yet there was interaction and resultant change.
