The Scandal of the StateThe Scandal of the State is a revealing study of the relationship between the postcolonial, democratic Indian nation state and Indian womens actual needs and lives. Well known for her work combining feminist theory and postcolonial studies, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan shows how the state is central to understanding womens identities and how, reciprocally, women and womens issues affect the states role and function. She argues that in India law and