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All humans are born free and every human being has certain inalienable, eternal, and universal natural rights. These rights are considered as fundamental human rights, providing assurance of equality in dignity. The basic rights of all humans include the right to life, equality, liberty, thought and speech, protection from exploitation, and security. From Sophocles 'Antigone' in 441 BC to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 AD, we may trace the growth of human rights around the world. On December 9, 1975, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the "Declaration on the Rights of Disabled Persons", which was marked as the beginning of campaign to safeguard the rights of disabled people. Historically, there has been a troubling trend of discrimination against disabled people including denial of rights, exclusion, or restriction as well as preference. Unquestionably, this kind of prejudice has a serious and profound effect on a variety of areas, notably work, health, education, service accessibility, and many more. When disability-based prejudice interacts with discrimination based on social, cultural, gender, and caste, things get more complicated. The researcher has attempted to illustrate a progressive change with respect to the legal and social perspective on protection for the disabled. The paper starts with a succinct summary of the several jurisprudential perspectives that examine the legal and social responsibilities pertaining to people with disabilities, as well as the paradigm shifts that have occurred over time. Following this discussion of the evolving boundaries of international disability laws, the paper will examine how the Indian perspective on these laws has progressively developed, with focus on the "Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill, 2011".