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HYD paper thoughts

disability law is becoming a household concept for alternative lawyering and in disability activism circles in india. if one looks at the discourse around disability in india in recent times one gets caught up in the catch-22 that surrounds the legal lingo and the public discourse. does disability become an official category because it is visibly a public issue or does it become a public issue (or pretend to be one) because there is an official discourse of disability?
this panel primarily focuses on the issue of disability and law in india from a human rights perspective. in my view, this prejudices any empirical study of disability as a discursive subject in india, because it forecloses the possibility of engaging with disability's fraught career in india by categorically announcing it as a concept with human rights dimensions. considering that the special theme for this conference is hinged on the troubled colonial legacy bequeathed to indian law, it is relevant that we direct our critical gaze to the birth and constitution of certain legal categories that we have come to receive in a taken-for-granted manner. so by beginning at the end and working backwards to the beginning or beginnings as the case may be, it is possible that we clarify the study of the study of the subject we are assuming already exists.
disability is now a legal category. disability is an important subject in the latest avtar of the development project. affirming the legal category status of disability is as important a process for the development project as is the process of establishing disability as a development category by making it legally viable .

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