Twice Disabled?
Upali Chakravarti
WOMEN, DISABILITY AND IDENTITY by Asha Hans Sage Publications, Delhi, 2004, 282 pp., 330.00
January 2004, volume 28, No 1

The issue of disability as a field of academic study as well as a ground for activism is gaining prominence not only the world over but in India too. The recognition of disability as a rights issue in India emerged as significant when the Persons With Disabilities Act was passed in 1995. Another instance was when the disabled demanded that they be included in the Census 2001. These two events required tremendous pressure and vociferous lobbying by the disabled themselves, parents of the disabled and some rehabilitation professionals, to assert the fact that the disabled are people and have rights too.

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