Interrogating Disability in India

Nandini Ghosh is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Presidency College Kolkata, a Master’s degree from the University of Calcutta, and a PhD from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Her areas of interest are qualitative research methodology, sociology of gender, marginalization and social exclusion and social movements. She has co-edited a book titled Pratyaha Everyday Lifeworlds: Dilemmas, Contestations and Negotiations (Primus 2015). Her other publications include ‘Bhalo Meye: Cultural Construction of Gender and Disability in Bengal’, in Renu Adlakha (ed.), Disability Studies in India: Global Discourses, Local Realities (Routledge India, 2013) and ‘Sites of oppression: Dominant ideologies and women with disabilities in India’, in Tom Shakespeare (ed.), The Disability Research Reader: New Voices (Routledge UK, 2015).

Chapter 1. Introduction: Interrogating Disability Issues in India.- Chapter 2.  Of Medical, Moral and Social Dilemmas: Theorizing disability for the South Asian context.- Chapter 3. Diversity at Workplace and in Education.- Chapter 4. Are Rights the right solution? Gaps between legal rights and Everyday access to citizenship.- Chapter 5. Lakshmi Radhakrishnan: The Notion of Personhood: Disability, Guardianship and Law in India.- Chapter 6. Power and Leveraging in a Disability Context.- Chapter 7. Living with disabilities: Experiences of livelihood pursuits of young persons with disabilities.- Chapter 8. Living Arrangement and Capability Deprivation of the Disabled In India.- Chapter 9. Negotiating Femininity: Lived Experiences of Women with Locomotor Disabilities in Bengal.- Chapter 10. Jagdish Chander: Disability Rights Movement in India: Emerging Trends, Issues and Methods of Advocacy.- Chapter 11. Nandini Ghosh: Disabled People’s Organisations: Assertions and Angsts.

“Interrogating Disability in India: Theory and Practice is a welcome addition to the emerging field of disability studies, especially disability rights and activism, in India. … this collection is still a useful resource for academics and researchers engaging with emerging scholarship in disability studies in the Indian context.” (Shubhangi G. Mehrotra, H-Net Reviews, h-net.org, August, 2018)