Introduction -- Gender, development, and the state in India : debates and perspectives -- Mapping national planning policy since 1990 -- Gender mainstreaming and the state in India: national initiatives -- Subnational policy in context : a profile of two Indian states -- Gendered institutional contexts : state-level machineries? -- Gendered discourses of development in two Indian states -- Gendered developmental subjectivities: actors, agency and gender mainstreaming -- Conclusion