Over the past few decades, increasing attention has been given to the issue of disability in India.According to the Census of India ( 2011) and the 76th round of the National Sample Survey (NSS) (2018), of the country's total population of 1.21 billion, 26.8 million people (2.21%) are disabled.The data reveal a gender disparity, recording a higher prevalence of disability among men, with 15 million (56%) being male and 11.8 million (44%) being female.Disabled people often have intersecting minority identities-2.45percent of India's disabled population belongs to the Scheduled Castes (SC), 2.05 percent to the Scheduled Tribes (ST), and 2.18 percent to minority groups other than SC/ST.A stark rural-urban divide can also be observed in the disabled population, with 69 percent of persons with disabilities residing in rural areas, while only about 31 percent are urban dwellers. 1 Disability justice in India begins with acknowledging the ubiquity and complexity of disablement.Disability is present in the form of congenital conditions in India, but it is also actively produced and exacerbated through structural neglect and intersectional subaltern positionalities.The term "disability justice" was coined in the mid-2000s by the Sins Invalid, a collective of queer, disabled women of colour.Foremost, it grounds disability theory and activism in intersectionality.Disability justice advocates assert, following Kimberl Crenshaw, "Disability activism will be intersectional or it will be bullshit."Sins Invalid laid out 10 principles of disability justice.Together with intersectionality, it insists on leadership by those most impacted; anti-capitalist politics; cross-movement solidarity; recognising wholeness; sustainability; commitment to cross-disability solidarity, interdependence; collective access; and collective liberation. 2 Disability justice is thus not only a framework but also a method.It does not merely question what disability looks like but how it is practised.Disability justice also reframes disability as a public question rather than a purely academic concern.Disability is produced, lived, and contested in homes, schools, streets, hospitals, digital platforms, and protest sites.It is governed by law and policy but also by culture, affect, technology, and everyday interactions.
Bhattacherjee et al. (Thu,) studied this question.