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This book is an unprecedented attempt to initiate an academic dialogue on disability studies in India by bringing together contemporary research, with particular emphasis on the intersections of disability with gender, class, caste, ethnicity, and urban¿rural location in the diverse areas of law, policy, medicine, family and culture.

Copyright: Centre for Women's Development Studies, New Delhi.

Disabled people are more or less absent in everyday life, politics and policy, development, interventions and research in India. Political exclusion and lack of access to basic services like health and education exacerbate the deep-rooted social stigma and cultural marginalisation and devaluation of this oppressed group. the plight of women with disabilities is even worse. It is only now in an era of human rights that their legitimate concerns...