This Presentation was given before Department Research Committee, Department of English, Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar (India) on July 15, 2018 as a part of my PhD Coursework Progress Review Presentation for SEM 1 & 2 ( 23/06/2017-22/06/2018). This presentation shows various research activities, searching, collecting and reading of Primary and Secondary sources, Papers presented at Conferences and Published Papers, Assignments, Short literature Review Writing, Presentation and examination completed under Coursework.

1. By Aahuti Dhandhukia
Asst Prof (English), Government Engineering College, Bhavnagar
Research Scholar (PhD), M K Bhavnagar University,
Bhavnagar (India)
Year: 2017-2020
Registration no: 1782
Registration Date: 23/06/2017

3.  The human experience and lives of Persons with
Disabilities are full of pain, sufferings, miseries and
anguish. The physical impairment reduces their ability but
the society’s prejudiced perspectives to their impaired
body affect their self-conception and human relationship
causing their humiliation, isolation, deprivation and
marginalization in the society. Understanding the total
effect of Body, Mind, Relationship and Social
Perspectives through literature develops the insight to
understand Persons with Disabilities for their acceptance,
inclusion and integration with dignity in human society.

4.  The person’s impairment creates ‘body difference’. How are these ‘different bodies’
perceived by the persons with disabilities themselves, people in relationship and
society?
 How do these ‘different bodies’ affect the mindscape of Persons with Disability in
terms of self esteem and human dignity, confidence and decision making in life?
 How do the Persons with Disabilities relate themselves with others? How do other
perceive them?
 What are the social perspectives to the Persons with Disabilities – to their body,
mind and relationship?
 How are the lives of the Persons with Disabilities shaped as the total effect of self,
people in relationship and society?
 How are the characters with Disabilities presented in literature with above
mentioned reference?

5. Types of Source Identified Studied
Books 40 15
Print/e-Journals 500 50
Websites/ Web Resources 60 20
Act/ Legislative Documents 15 8
Organizational Reports 5 4
Newspaper Articles 25 25
PhD Thesis 5 2

6. • Learning/ Reading of
1. Paper1: Research Methodology
2. Paper 2: Basics of Relevant Subject
3. Paper 3: Specialization Required
• Attended Counseling Sessions Regularly
• Submitted Assignments in Paper 1,2,3
• Given Presentation in Paper 1,2,3
• Submitted Short Literature Review Writing
• Appearing in internal Test
• Appearing and passing term end Coursework
Exam

7.  “Disability in Literature: Imparting Human Values for Inclusive
Society” organized by SSCCM, MKBU in association with Jan
Wyzykowski Uni Poland, 18 Dec, 2017.
 ”Disability and Global Perspectives: The Vision and Voice of
the Disabled in Salman Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh and
Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day.” organized by 62nd All India
English Teachers Conference at Osmania University,
Hyderabad,18-20 Jan , 2018
 “Disability and Adapting the Self in Family and Society: A
Study of Select Novels in Indian Writing in English” by Global
Association of English Studies at H M Patel Institute of English
Training & Research, 2-3 Feb, 2018.( Absentia)
 Prepared an abstract on “Emerging Disability Studies in Indian
English Literature and reinterpreting Anita Desai’s Clear Light
of Day and Salman Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh”

8. “Disability in Literature: Imparting Human Values
for Inclusive Society” got Published in Indian
journal of Research, UGC Approved ISSN 2231-
6655, pages 42-46
“Where Light Falls Dim: Isolation and Accommodation
of the Disabled” in Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day”
got Published in a book “ Narratives on Disabled:
Literature and Cinema” Published by Unistar Books
Pvt Ltd. Chandigarh, ISBN: 978-93-83391-30-1 pages
1-16.

9.  What is Disability?
 Types of Disability
 UN and Disability Legislative Framework
 Emergence of Disability Studies as academic discipline
 Interdisciplinary approaches: significance of Disability Studies in
Literature
 Marginalization of the disabled as widespread practice across
Time and Place
 Disabled Peoples’ viewpoints for society for their marginalization
 Medical and Social Model of disability
 Challenges against Social Model of Disability
 First reading of primary sources
 Depiction of Disabled Body, Family Relationship, Social
perspectives and effects on self conception in primary sources

10.  Disability and Religion
 Disability and Philosophy
 Disability and Myth
 Disability Research done in English Literature
 Medical symptoms of types of Disability in Primary Source
 Difference of Experience in Physical, Intellectual and Acquired Disability
 Disability Identity and Independence
 Impact of Disability on Man-Woman relationship
 Intersection with Feminism and Post- Colonial Studies
 Disability as Literary Device and Human understanding of Disabled characters in Literature

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 Presentation, assignment, Paper Presentation and Paper
Publication Information on blog
 Relevant update on e- Portfolio