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’AcknowledgementsForeword1 Locomotor Impairment and Disability: Global and Indian Contexts2 Methodology: The Challenge of Foregrounding the Silenced Voices3 Embodied Existence: Attending to Impaired Body and Related Regrets4 Struggles of Living with a ‘Dependent’ Identity: Negotiating ‘Mobility-related’ Difficulties5 Exclusion of ‘Differently Abled’ or ‘Less-Abled’ in the Neoliberal World6 Experience of Healing Despite Embodied and Stigmatized Existence7 The Emerging Perspective on DisabilityAppendix A Appendix B: Demographics FormBibliographyIndex

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’AcknowledgementsForeword1 Locomotor Impairment and Disability: Global and Indian Contexts2 Methodology: The Challenge of Foregrounding the Silenced Voices3 Embodied Existence: Attending to Impaired Body and Related Regrets4 Struggles of Living with a ‘Dependent’ Identity: Negotiating ‘Mobility-related’ Difficulties5 Exclusion of ‘Differently Abled’ or ‘Less-Abled’ in the Neoliberal World6 Experience of Healing Despite Embodied and Stigmatized Existence7 The Emerging Perspective on DisabilityAppendix A Appendix B: Demographics FormBibliographyIndex

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’AcknowledgementsForeword1 Locomotor Impairment and Disability: Global and Indian Contexts2 Methodology: The Challenge of Foregrounding the Silenced Voices3 Embodied Existence: Attending to Impaired Body and Related Regrets4 Struggles of Living with a ‘Dependent’ Identity: Negotiating ‘Mobility-related’ Difficulties5 Exclusion of ‘Differently Abled’ or ‘Less-Abled’ in the Neoliberal World6 Experience of Healing Despite Embodied and Stigmatized Existence7 The Emerging Perspective on DisabilityAppendix A Appendix B: Demographics FormBibliographyIndex