India: Social Development Report 2016

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The India: Social Development Report 2016—Disability Rights Perspectives presents new research in disability studies, a little understood subject in the social sciences and humanities in India, as also in the development discourse. The disproportionate disadvantage, exclusion, and stigmatization suffered by persons with disabilities are caused by cultural, social, and physical barriers that obstruct their effective participation in social and political life. Encompassing the diversity of life-worlds of persons with disabilities, the first part of the report presents research findings in the areas of health, socio-economic status, custodial facilities, and psychiatric care for persons with psycho-social disabilities; employment and labour, right to education, higher education, status of women and girls with disabilities; and status of women with intellectual disabilities. The second part of the report deals with other critical aspects of social development such as ageing, housing, displacement, degrading labour, labour migration, and financial inclusion. The third part presents the cumulative Social Development Index. The Social Development Report 2016 addresses the fundamental elements of non-derogable rights of all citizens of India, illuminating the pathways to their realization for persons with disabilities in all their heterogeneity. By addressing the need for setting the constitutional standard of non-discrimination and dignity, the report also shows how entrenched social practices can be dislodged with appropriate, mandatory, and necessary governance structures.
The Council for Social Development is an institution of advanced research in the social sciences and humanities, with two centres located in Delhi and Hyderabad. It was established in the 1960s by a group of scholars and policymakers in social development led by Durgabai Deshmukh and C.D. Deshmukh. The Council, through its research, publications, and advocacy, seeks to promote dialogue and debate and to secure justice for all in every sphere of life in India.

About the Author

Council for Social Development
About the Editors

Kalpana Kannabiran is Professor and Regional Director, Council for Social Development, Southern Regional Centre, Hyderabad, India.
Asha Hans is former Professor of Political Science and Founder Director, School of Women’s Studies, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India.

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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

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

Notes on Editors and Contributors