Disability Studies in India

This book examines the state of art in disability studies, focusing on the Indian context, as well as the broader South Asian situation. It presents interdisciplinary perspectives on the basic idea, evolution, practices and challenges of researching and teaching disability studies at various higher education institutions and in other civil society spaces. The chapters address a range of related themes, including activism, development policies, research, pedagogy, spatial and social access, caste and gender representations and rights-based discourses. Given the scope of its coverage, the book is of interest to scholars and students in area of humanities, education, law, sociology and social work, political science development and disability studies.

• Disability
• Higher Education
• Interdisciplinarity
• Design and Access
• Social Justice and Rights
• disability studies

“She has not only written extensively on the South Asian experience of disability but has brought together important scholarship by several academics in this area in a recent edited work.” (Ankita Gandhi and Surabhi Singh, Jindal Global Law Review, November 30, 2021)

“Disability Studies in India edited by Nilika Mehrotra with contributions from the archetypal theorists and active practitioners alike, is long awaited. … Disability Studies in India would remain a must-read text for scholars in disability studies and all others engaged in a serious interdisciplinary research.” (N. Annavaram, Indian Journal of Critical Disability Studies, December, 2020)

“Nilika Mehrotra needs to be congratulated for bringing together such a rich and diverse landscape of disability scholarship from across the Indian academic context. The careful and thoughtful articulations of disability in its historical and contemporary context will be an essential reading for those engaging within questions of disability within India and South Asia, and for scholars, who seek to rigorously understand the significance of interdisciplinary Southern accounts for their own work.” (Karen Soldatic, Disability and the Global South, Vol. 7 (1), 2020)

• Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

  Nilika Mehrotra

Nilika Mehrotra is a Professor at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Prior to this, she taught sociology at Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. She specializes in the issues of gender, disability, social policy, and historical analysis of the economic and social development processes.

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