Disability in India and What You Can Do About It — Appendix and Works Cited

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Appendix — Additional papers on religious attitudes to disability, in India or other:

Al-Aoufi, Hiam, Nawaf Al-Zyoud, and Norbayah Shahminan. “Islam and the cultural conceptualisation of disability.” International Journal of Adolescence and Youth 17.4 (2012): 205–219.

Bazna, Maysaa S., and Tarek A. Hatab. “Disability in the Qur’an: The Islamic alternative to defining, viewing, and relating to disability.” Journal of Religion, Disability & Health 9.1 (2005): 5–27.

Miles, M. “Disability in an Eastern religious context: Historical perspectives.” Journal of Religion, Disability & Health 6.2–3 (2002): 53–76

Selway, Deborah, and Adrian F. Ashman. “Disability, religion and health: A literature review in search of the spiritual dimensions of disability.” Disability & Society 13.3 (1998): 429–439.

Miles, Michael. “Some influences of religions on attitudes towards disabilities and people with disabilities.” Journal of Religion, Disability & Health 6.2–3 (2002): 117–129.

Works Cited

Poverty, Oxford, and Human Development Initiative. “Global multidimensional poverty index 2019: illuminating inequalities.” (2019).

Rooney, Katharine. “India’s Record-Breaking Diaspora in Numbers.” World Economic Forum, World Economic Forum, 30 Sept. 2019, www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/09/india-has-the-world-s-biggest-diaspora-here-s-where-its-emigrants-live/.

“India: Extreme Inequality in Numbers.” Oxfam International, 19 Oct. 2019, www.oxfam.org/en/india-extreme-inequality-numbers.

Plecher, H. “India — Statistics and Facts.” Statista, Stroer, 10 Jan. 2019, www.statista.com/topics/754/india/.

World Health Organization. World report on disability 2011. World Health Organization, 2011.

Editor. “Disabled Population in India as per Census 2011 (2016 Updated).” Enabled.in, Enabled, 29 Aug. 2017, enabled.in/wp/disabled-population-in-india-as-per-census-2011–2016-updated/.

Narayan, Choudhary Laxmi, and Thomas John. “The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016: Does it address the needs of the persons with mental illness and their families.” Indian journal of psychiatry 59.1 (2017): 17.

Buckingham, Jane. “Writing histories of disability in India: strategies of inclusion.” Disability & Society 26.4 (2011): 419–431.

Ghosh, Nandini, ed. Interrogating disability in India: Theory and practice. Springer, 2016.

Karna, G. N. Disability studies in India: Retrospects and prospects. Gyan Books, 2001.

Gupta, Vidya Bhushan. “How Hindus cope with disability.” Journal of Religion, Disability & Health 15.1 (2011): 72–78.

Bhambhani, Meenu. “Emergence of Disability Rights Movement in India.” Disability in South Asia: Knowledge and Experience (2018): 21.

Mehrotra, Nilika. “Disability rights movements in India: Politics and practice.” Economic and Political Weekly (2011): 65–72.