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Feminists have challenged the understandings of social structures, processes and agencies by using gender as a critical lens to examine contemporary issues in feminism. For this, one had to foreground women’s subject positions and their lived experiences as the basis of feminist epistemological claims, thus strengthening standpoint theories and the idea of situated knowledge. Feminism brought in the categories of gender and patriarchy to critique power framed in “modernity” as well as “tradition” into their classically framed binaries. In the Indian context, Feminism has demonstrated the idea of the traditional Indian society as a product of colonialism as well of the institutions of power anchored on patriarchy