For feminists, denial of control and choice over one’s own body has been one of the significant practices of violence against women. Feminists have confronted numerous struggles for assuring women’s control and choice over their bodies especially in the context of India. In these struggles, among the other objectives, access to birth controls with informed choice to regulate one’s own fertility has been one of the pivotal goals. In this context, this paper interrogates the idea of birth control and critically examines why its prevalence was so debatable in the colonial period. The paper probes how and why, feminists stand on birth control was different from the prevailing perceptions on the necessity or non-necessity of birth control in the colonial period. The paper highlights the debates in support and against of birth control and, argues why feminist’s standpoint was different from others, and why did they uphold women’s control and choice over their body along with their rights to reproductive health.