This paper critically analyses issues related to gender and land rights in the state of Rajasthan.

The study provides critical understanding of women’s rights to livelihoods in forest sector.

In recent years, with the increased pace of urbanisation and modernisation, Indian women of all social classes have entered professional occupations.

While a couple, and more specifically women must have access to knowledge and services to regulate fertility, this right is distinctly different from the objectives of the policies of population control.

In 1931, the Fundamental Rights Resolution passed by the Indian National Congress adopted gender equality as a guiding principle.