Question

Write about the disability discourse in India in your own words.

Answer 1

In the present study we asked: how do institutional discourses, as represented in mass media such as newspapers, confer identities upon a traditionally marginalised collective such as those with a disability? To answer our question, we examined Indian newspaper discourse from 2001 to 2010, the time period between two census counts. We observed that disability identities—that of a welfare recipient, a collective with human rights, a collective that is vulnerable, and that engages in miscreancy—were ascribed through selective highlighting of certain aspects of the collective, thereby socially positioning the collective, and through the associated signalling of institutional subject positions. Present observations indicate that identities of a collective can be governed by institutional discourse, that those “labelled” can themselves reinforce institutionally ascribed identities, and that as institutional discourses confer identities onto the marginalised, they simultaneously also signal who the relatively more powerful institutional actors are.

Answer 2

Disability discourse in India:

• When a disability is signified from different perspectives, it is termed as disability discourse and it explains the behavior of society with individuals having impairments.
• According to report of the Census of India, there are 2.1 percent total populations who are having disability.
• From this percentage, 1.0 %, 0.2 %, 0.1%, 0.6% and 0.2% of population is having disability in seeing, in speech, in hearing, in movement and mental disability respectively.

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