Karna G.N. Disability studies in India: retrospects and prospects

Gyan Publishing House, 2001. — 348 p.The evolution of Disability Studies as a separate field of academic discipline reflects the change in the conceptual framework of disability. During recent years the increasing pace of globalisation and liberalisation have tremendously influenced the academia. Consequently, academics can no longer pursue their own interests secure in the knowledge that their intellectual activities are intertwined with the nation state or merely contemplate how ideas could be disseminated to the rest of the world. In the newly emerging area of Disability Studies this is quite applicable like in other more established parts of the academic curriculum.