Deepika Sharma is Assistant Professor of psychology at the Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad, India. She completed her bachelor's and master's degrees from Delhi University and her PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. Her research interests are qualitative research, disability studies, critical health psychology, mental health of vulnerable population and Indian psychology.

Note On Terminology to Depict 'Disability'

Acknowledgements

Foreword

1 Locomotor Impairment and Disability: Global and Indian Contexts

2 Methodology: The Challenge of Foregrounding the Silenced Voices

3 Embodied Existence: Attending to Impaired Body and Related Regrets

4 Struggles of Living with a 'Dependent' Identity: Negotiating 'Mobility-related' Difficulties

5 Exclusion of 'Differently Abled' or 'Less-Abled' in the Neoliberal World

6 Experience of Healing Despite Embodied and Stigmatized Existence

7 The Emerging Perspective on Disability

Appendix A

Appendix B: Demographics Form

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