Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Sociology

Chapter

Indian Society: Patterns of Social Inequality and Exclusion

Question:

Read the passage carefully and answer the question.
"I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in the circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, figments of their imagination. Indeed everything and anything except me"

The above lines are taken from the novel "Invisible Man" of Ralph Ellison. Anita Ghai, leading activists and scholars, compared invisibility of the _________________ India to the 'Invisible Man' of Ralph Ellison.

Options:

Untouchables

Tribals

Marginal Farmers

Disabled

Correct Answer:

Disabled

Explanation:

The differently abled are not ‘disabled’ only because they are physically or mentally ‘impaired’ but also because society is built in a manner that does not cater to their needs. In contrast to the struggles over Dalit, adivasi or women’s rights, the rights of the disabled have been recognised only very recently. Yet in all historical periods, in all societies there have been people who are disabled. One of the leading activists and scholars of disability in the Indian context, Anita Ghai, argues that this invisibility of the disabled can be compared to the Invisible Man of Ralph Ellison. Ellison’s novel of that name is a famous indictment of racism against African Americans in the USA.