Disability studies and the law: In conversation with Professor (Dr) Nilika Mehrotra

The field of disability studies in India is fledgling, yet burgeoning. Professor (Dr) Nilika Mehrotra an exemplary scholar from this field, who has played a pioneering role situating the scholarship on persons with disabilities (PWDs) distinctly South Asian narrative. She not only written extensively experience but brought together important by several academics area recent edited work. Her research intersectionality between gender and disability, as well contribution state’s schemes enhancing rights PWDs, shaped post-coloniality discipline India. As anthropologist, she sought to place experiences disabled at heart her theorisation, critiquing top-down approach representing disability. In interview, discusses inherent interdisciplinarity evolution movements