India: Social Development Report 2016: Disability Rights Perspectives

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
Part III Social Development Index
18. Social Development Index 2016
Surajit Deb