Writing histories of disability in India: strategies of inclusion

• Published in: Disability & society Vol. 26; no. 4; pp. 419 - 431
• Main Author: Buckingham, Jane
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 01.06.2011
• Subjects: Access to Education; Attitudes toward Disabilities; capability theory; Caste; Caste Systems; Civil Rights; Colonialism; Community; Decolonization; Disabilities; Disability; disability history; Economic Factors; Economic integration; Empowerment; Equal Education; Females; Foreign Countries; Gender; Gender Bias; Historical analysis; Historical Interpretation; History; India; Marginality; Oppression; Physically Handicapped; Poverty; Sex; Social Attitudes; Social Bias; Social Class; social inclusion; Social integration; Stigma; Welfare; World History; India

Existing historical understandings of disability are dominated by European and American experience and tend to assume Judeo-Christian ideas of stigma and exclusion are universal norms. This paper emphasises the unique experience of disability in India and the role of poverty, gender, caste and commu...