Course Glossary

Prejudice against people with disabilities, often embedded in institutional practices.

An umbrella term for the indigenous peoples of India, also referred to as Scheduled Tribes in the Indian Constitution. They have distinct cultures, languages, and traditions and often face displacement and socio-economic exclusion.

Discrimination or stereotyping based on a person's age.

involve various Technologies medical procedures to aid individuals to conceive. It helps to address various issues of infertility. It includes procedures like in vitro fertilisation, frozen embryo transfer, intrauterine insemination, surrogacy and many others. The treatment involves a man's sperm and a woman's egg.

Parallel to, and sometimes critically observing, the Research Centres establishment of university-linked centres, the late 1980s and 1990s witnessed the emergence of autonomous feminist research, documentation, and publishing initiatives. These often arose organically from the women's movement itself or from academics disillusioned with institutional constraints. They sought spaces less bound by university bureaucracy, funding conditionalities, and hierarchical structures, and more directly connected to activism, marginalized communities, and critical intellectual traditions.