This volume begins with the author’s reasons for exploring the topic of poverty as experienced by Malaysian Indian women from the Tamil subgroup. Informed by the triple yoke model of oppression, a concept adapted from scholarly writings in the context of South Africa, the author outlines the scope of this title, as well as the rationale of centring this research in the West Malaysian state of Penang, given the establishment of an Indian population there dating back to the colonial era. Positing that relying merely on quantitative methods to view deprivation offers only a limited scope of poverty; the author sets out to shine a light on the gender beliefs espoused by Malaysian Tamil women and how they feed into their experiences of poverty and precarity in today’s Malaysia through complementing a quantitative data collection method with a consideration of the historical marginalisation of this community, as well as gaining insight into their current experiences through a series of interviews.