There is a significant amount of scholarship on female carers for older adults. Several studies in the Asian and the South Asian context have highlighted how women, primarily female spouses and daughters-in-law are expected to look after their ageing husbands and parents-in-law. In contrast, there is very little scholarship on male carers as caregiving burden of (younger) women in different age groups has dominated the scholarship on later-life caregiving. Taking note of this research gap, this paper aims to illustrate the role of male carers in the backdrop of traditional gender roles and changing family living arrangements in urban India. This study was administered among adult sons and older male spouses who have been providing care to their older parent/s and older spouses for the last five to seven years. A total of thirty interviews were conducted and in the majority of the cases the older parents or spouses were suffering from terminal illnesses or were bed-ridden. Findings from the study revealed that in majority of the cases wherein the older male spouse was the primary carer was owing to new living arrangements and the adult children were not cohabiting with their older parents. On the other hand, for the adult sons in most cases they emerged as primary carers of their older parents after their divorce or after they became widowers. Although all of the respondents had hired a private paid caregiver for their older parent/s or spouses, nonetheless, all the respondents indicated that they believed in being the primary carer. By highlighting the role of male carers, this paper intends to demonstrate how male carers deal and provide later-life caregiving and in the process this paper hopes to expand the scope of social gerontology and family and kinship studies in India.