Mapping the Field: Gender Relations in Contemporary India, volume 2, together with its companion volume 1, is the first reader of the four prepared for students of women's studies particularly for Masters' level courses and more generally across undergraduate and certificate courses now that the concept of gender has been introduced at all levels of curricula. The reader reflects many of the concerns that have come up in women's studies across the last two decades. Volume 1 focused on the major economic and social debates in women's studies this second volume traces the more recent political and theoretical debates in the field such as questions of caste and community sexuality and governance.