Interrogating Disability in India

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Nandini Ghosh is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata. She has a Bachelors degree in Sociology from Presidency College Kolkata, a Masters degree from the University of Calcutta, and a PhD from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Her areas of interest are qualitative research methodology, sociology of gender, marginalization and social exclusion and social movements. She has co-edited a book titled Pratyaha Everyday Lifeworlds: Dilemmas, Contestations and Negotiations (Primus 2015). Her other publications include Bhalo Meye: Cultural Construction of Gender and Disability in Bengal, in Renu Adlakha (ed.), Disability Studies in India: Global Discourses, Local Realities (Routledge India, 2013) and Sites of oppression: Dominant ideologies and women with disabilities in India, in Tom Shakespeare (ed.), The Disability Research Reader: New Voices (Routledge UK, 2015).

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