PhD student Tulika Singh interviewed on Disability History Association Podcast
7 August 2025
PhD Candidate Tulika Singh
, PhD Candidate in the Department of History, Classics, and Religion, was a guest on the July 2025 episode of the Disability History Association Podcast. During the episode, Tulika shared her work on perceptions of blindness and incurability in early Indian medicine. Focusing on vision disorders, she highlighted how the incurability of conditions makes bodies with incurable disorders stigmatic and socially “disabling” in the early Indian medical view.
Singh is writing her dissertation on concepts of bodies and disabilities in early South Asia under the supervision of . Tulika’s research interests include the social, cultural, medical, and disability history of premodern South Asia. Her doctoral project draws on textual and visual sources to examine how discourses on bodily disorders conceptualize “disability” in relation to class/caste, gender/sex, age, and religion based identities.
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