Even though most of the international legal feminist literature is Eurocentric, it can nevertheless be a good starting point for Indian legal feminists to build specifically Indian legal theory. One of the peculiar legacies of being in a postcolonial country is the fact that the scholars can neither ignore the scholarship in the developed world countries nor employ it directly. Most legal thinkers in the developed world write as if the developing world simply has to catch up with the developed world, and ignore the specificities of postcolonial societies