Abstract
This article begins with the crucial question which geographers in general face: what are the disciplinary boundaries of geography and how are social and political locations enacted in drawing those boundaries; what informs research and who gets to decide which issues are within the domain of geography and which are not and how in the process certain issues such as gender and identity are pushed to the margins as less important? The legacies of colonial construction of knowledge are seen to still bog the essentially descriptive endeavour of Indian geography whereas a few practicing `critical geography' face derision as `not being real geographers'. The article opens up a space for discussing western hegemony and the ways to resist it, questioning the universality of postmodern/poststructuralist discourses and argues for the unique synergy of theoretical and methodological approaches that seems to be emerging in the small yet significant body of critical geography in India.
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