Disability Studies in India

1. Emancipating the Lives of Persons With Disabilities: Potential for Contributions by Disability Studies 


 Deepa  Sonpal and Vanmala Hiranandani

2. Countering disabling discourses of disability: developing South Asia-specific models of disability   James Staples


3.  Disability in Architecture: A Neglected Phenomenon 

Kavita Murugkar and Abir Mullick

4. Lived Experience in Disability Research: "I" Am the Field and the Method 

Namitha A Kumar and Sangeetha Menon5.  The Right to Work for persons with disability 



 Vasanthi Nimushakavi

6. Disability and Public Spaces: Universal Design Approaches 

 Shilpa Das

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.

"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)