ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I discuss feminist research methodologies to present the geography of gender as a legitimate, relevant and popular research field, with a focus on India. 1 The essence of my argument is to understand gender research in geography, to situate both geography and feminism in India along with their growth and resultant hierarchies and historic inequities. In my view, the continuing engagement of Indian geography with the project of modernity in India attributes a specific nature to the studies of gender currently arising out of this discipline. More specifically, my argument slightly differs from the articulation of non-English speaking European geographers who, whilst reacting to the Anglophone hegemony, have presented their case more in terms of historical and contextual differences in feminists’ concerns and agendas. In this chapter, I emphasise that women geographers in India are not necessarily on their way to catch up with liberated feminists who have ‘moved on’ from a naturalised gender order, but that feminisms in India are expressed differently and arising from a different context, that geographical studies of gender in India have different interests, agendas and issues, and that they present an increasingly compelling voice that demands to be heard by those who dominate feminist geography.
