Abstract
Disability Studies (DS) in India is of very recent origin in terms of critical examination of the meanings and dynamics of disability in the Global South. In the past two decades, one finds the emergence of various Disability studies programmes as well as disability service centres, known was enabling units, being set up in many Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), ushering in discussion around the disability. This chapter tries to understand and document their histories and challenges through interdisciplinary perspectives.
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Pooja Singh’s Ph.D. work on disability in the rural Uttar Pradesh, Ritika Gulyani’s Ph.D. work with deaf in Delhi, Vaijyanti Bezbaruah’s Ph.D. work on ageing are important ethnographic additions to growing field of DS.
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The paper presented by Shubhangi Vaidya at the conference was related one but the chapter is freshly written for the volume.
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Anita Ghai’s chapter was specially invited one as she was not able to present it at the conference.
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This chapter is a new one since study on the subject was undertaken after the conference.
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At the time of the fieldwork in 2015 at MANUU, Shilpaa Anand was teaching DS. At present, she has moved to BITS Hyderabad and one is not aware if the courses are still being taught there.
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Ritika Gulyani’s paper has emerged out of her Ph.D. work in the last few years.
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This chapter is also freshly written though it is an extension of the theme on which Kavita Murugkar presented at the conference.
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Mehrotra, N. (2020). Situating Disability Studies: A Prolegomenon. In: Mehrotra, N. (eds) Disability Studies in India . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2616-9_1
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