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Buckingham, Jane – Disability & Society, 2011
Existing historical understandings of disability are dominated by European and American experience and tend to assume Judeo-Christian ideas of stigma and exclusion are universal norms. This paper emphasises the unique experience of disability in India and the role of poverty, gender, caste and community in compounding the marginalisation felt by…
Descriptors: World History, Historical Interpretation, Social Class, Disabilities