This volume gathers together some reflections on the complex and shifting dynamic of violence and gender in South Asia. It analyses how international catalytic efforts actually function in the matrix of South Asian societies, and critiques their silences and erasures. Has the international movement, in its conceptualisation, articulation and implementation, resulted in privileging one body of experience over another and erased the reality of many women subjected to different kinds of violence These essays raise important concerns of difference and plurality in understanding and confronting violence against women, and interrogate accepted truths on development and agency, to flesh out nuances previously ignored.