India Social development report 2016 : disability rights perspectives / Council for Social Development ; edited by Kalpana Kannabiran and Asha Hans. - First edition. - xiii, 336 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Includes bibliographical references.

Table of Contents
List of Figures, Charts, Tables, and Boxes
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations

Introduction
Asha Hans and Kalpana Kannabiran

Part I Disability, Disablement, and Discrimination

1. Disability and Disadvantage in India
Ashwini Deshpande

2. Accessing Rights: Women with Disabilities in India
Asha Hans

3. Girls with Disabilities in India: Living Contradictions of Care and Negation
Nandini Ghosh and Supurna Banerjee

4. Will All the Included Children Please Stand Up? Making Educational Inclusion Real
Jo Chopra-McGowan

5. Disablement in Higher Education: Mapping Barriers and Access in Indian Universities
Kalpana Kannabiran and Soumya Vinayan

6. Persons with Disabilities in the Labourscape of Tamil Nadu
J. Jeyaranjan and Padmini Swaminathan

7. Urban Employment for Persons with Disabilities: A Study of Telangana
Soumya Vinayan

8. MGNREGA: Unexpected Bonanza for Persons with Disability?
Satish B. Agnihotri and Shruti Singh

9. Who Is a 'Worker'? Problematizing 'Ability' in the Conceptualization of Labour
Kalpana Kannabiran

10. Invisible People, Invisible Violence: Lives of Women with Intellectual and Psycho-social Disabilities
Mahima Nayar and Nilika Mehrotra

11. Custody, Confl ict, and Psycho-social Wellbeing: Bihar and Kashmir
Kriti Sharma

Part II Vulnerabilities, Precarity, and Social Development

12. Status of Elderly Population in India: Issues and Concerns
K.S. James, T.S. Syamala, and Supriya Verma

13. Indispensable Yet Inaccessible: The Paradoxes of Adequate Housing in Urban India
Gautam Bhan and Anushree Deb

14. Dispossessed by Development: Mining, Habitations, Lives, and Livelihoods
Sujit Kumar Mishra

15. Waiting for Swachh Bharat: A Close Look at the Question of Caste, Sanitation, and Policy Approaches
Subhash Gatade

16. Gender in Internal and International Labour Migration: Women's Migration, Social
Disadvantage, and Social Development
Praveena Kodoth

17. In Pursuit of an Inclusive Financescape in India: Changing Course, Shifting Goals
Tara Nair


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