New Disability Mobilities and Accessibilities in Urban India MICHELE FRIEDNER State University of New York, Stony Brook JAMIE OSBORNE Cambridge Systematics, Inc. Abstract This article analyzes mobilities and accessibilities in urban India in relation to disability in India. The concept of disability has become a privileged site for the state and NGOs to situate development interventions and for corporations to engage in corporate social responsibility initiatives. These state, NGO, and corporate efforts are directed at a specific kind of disabled individual and are heavily based upon market logics. Utilizing data from disability-related conferences held in New Delhi and Bangalore, and other initiatives developing in these cities for disabled people, this article critically examines new disability mobilities and accessibilities and argues that a new assemblage of state, NGO, and corporation is forming around disability and giving rise to a new “disability marketplace.” This article calls for analysts and activists working in the arena of disability to be more specific in their treatment of the concepts of mobility and acces- sibility, and more aware of the consequences of reifying the concept of disability. [India, disability, corporate social responsibility, mobility, access] Introduction: New disability mobilities and accessibilities in urban India I n 2013, The Hindu, one of India’s daily newspapers, published an opinion piece, “The Disconnect with Disability,” by Dorodi Sharma (2013), a program manager at one of India’s prominent disability advocacy organizations. The piece decried the fact that disability was absent from the Millennium Development Goals. Sharma called upon governments in the global South to include disability issues in develop- ment agendas and stressed the importance of attending to the experi- ences of disabled people on the ground in the global South. To visually underscore Sharma’s point, an image of a disabled man sitting alone on a tricycle 1 on a wide road, most likely in New Delhi, is included in the article. The image cuts a forlorn, seemingly abandoned figure. We found the choice of this image to be interesting because while tricyle users are highly visible on roads in India, they tend to be invisible in larger disability rights movements (and discourses). 2 Indeed, informal discussions with tricycle users in New Delhi suggest to us that these individuals are often unaware of disability legislation. Meanwhile, many activist groups in India and around the world have been working to foreground disability issues and create a legislative-juridicial apparatus City & Society, Vol. 27, Issue 1, pp. 9–29, ISSN 0893-0465, eISSN 1548-744X. © 2015 by the American Anthropological Association. All rights reserved. DOI:10.1111/ciso.12054.