Table of Contents

Acknowledgements . Introduction . 1. An Autobiographical Note: My Own Journey 2. Conversations about Disability: The Cultural Landscape 3. Understanding Disability: Slippery Ropes 4. At the Periphery: Marginalised Disabled Lives 5. Mystifying Realities: Right to Life 6 . Theorising Disability 7. Politics of Identity: Oppression and Resistance 8. Need for a Paradigm Shift: Conceptualising Disability Studies. Bibliography

About the Author

Anita Ghai is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi, New Delhi.

Reviews

"Ghai’s book gives an extensive, detailed and complex overview of disability in India. It is the author’s position at the interface between a research scholar on disability, a disability rights activist and a disabled person that makes her book so interesting and demonstrative. As do her remarkable expressions of hope and strength as illustrated by her comment, “Polio was a gift –an opportunity from which to learn, experience, understand, and then move on” (p. 15)."Anna-Lena Wolf, International Quarterly for Asian Studies