In India, more and more rural communities are looking for additional revenue streams these days by expanding their traditional pursuits, art and craft, cultural heritage, and entrepreneurship, with a focus on tourism, cuisine, painting, and handcraft. Rural women's lives are given a new direction through entrepreneurship, which results in their empowerment. Through a thorough analysis of the literature from various journals, research papers, newspapers, magazines, websites, and other sources during the past 15 years, this study seeks to explain the body of current knowledge in order to identify a relationship between rural women's entrepreneurship and modernisation. While dealing with a numeral of challenges, including a lack of education, restricted access to resources, and numerous stereotypes that impede their entrepreneurial path, the study also highlights the noteworthy contributions made by rural Indian women entrepreneurs to agricultural innovation, sustainability, women's self-confidence, improved living standards, family decision-making ability, and rural development. Women confront several obstacles, yet their contributions are changing both their own lives and society as a whole.