ABSTRACT
The markers of any identity are complicated. While the discourse in general embodies disability not as definite as compared to identities that are associated with gender, race, sexuality, caste, nation, and class. Although there are problems in identity formation of these categories as well, disability however is surely fluid and consequently problematic. Within disability discourse, a major issue that is conflicting is the idea of identity. Although the phrase ‘identity politics’ has been defined differently, for the present purpose I am resorting to the definition given by Gergen:
[It] stands for a mode of political activism typically though not exclusively initiated by groups excluded from traditional mainstream politics. Such marginalized groups generate a self-designated identity (group consciousness) that is instantiated by the individual identities of its constituents (cited in Ghai, 1995: 134).
