Lunatic Asylums in Colonial Bombay
Title | Lunatic Asylums in Colonial Bombay PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Ann Pinto |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 251 |
Release | 2018-08-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3319942441 |
This book traces the historical roots of the problems in India’s mental health care system. It accounts for indigenous experiences of the lunatic asylum in the Bombay Presidency (1793-1921). The book argues that the colonial lunatic asylum failed to assimilate into Indian society and therefore remained a failed colonial-medical enterprise. It begins by assessing the implications of lunatic asylums on indigenous knowledge and healing traditions. It then examines the lunatic asylum as a ‘middle-ground’, and the European superintendents’ ‘common-sense’ treatment of Indian insanity. Furthermore, it analyses the soundscapes of Bombay’s asylums, and the extent to which public perceptions influenced their use. Lunatic asylums left a legacy of historical trauma for the indigenous community because of their coercive and custodial character. This book aims to disrupt that legacy of trauma and to enable new narratives in mental health treatment in India.
Lunatic Asylums in Colonial Bombay
Title | Lunatic Asylums in Colonial Bombay PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Pinto |
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Release | 2018 |
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ISBN | 9783319942452 |
Curing Madness?
Title | Curing Madness? PDF eBook |
Author | Shilpi Rajpal |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 2020-11-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0190993324 |
Curing Madness? focusses on the institutional and non-institutional histories of madness in colonial north India. It proves that 'madness' and its 'cure' are shifting categories which assumed new meanings and significance as knowledge travelled across cultural, medical, national, and regional boundaries. The book examines governmental policies, legal processes, diagnosis and treatment, and individual case histories by looking closely at asylums in Agra, Benaras, Bareilly, Lucknow, Delhi, and Lahore. Rajpal highlights that only a few mentally ill ended up in asylums; most people suffering from insanity were cared for by their families and local vaidyas, ojhas, and pundits. These practitioners of traditional medicine had to reinvent themselves to retain their relevance as Western medical knowledge was widely disseminated in colonial India. Evidence of this is found in the Hindi medical advice literature of the era. Taking these into account Shilpi Rajpal moves beyond asylum-centric histories to examine extensive archival materials gathered from various repositories.
Madness, Cannabis and Colonialism
Title | Madness, Cannabis and Colonialism PDF eBook |
Author | J. Mills |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 2000-07-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0230286046 |
This fascinating, entertaining and often gruelling book by James Mills, examines the lunatic asylums set up by the British in nineteenth-century India. The author asserts that there was a growth in asylums following the Indian Mutiny, fuelled by the fear of itinerant and dangerous individuals, which existed primarily in the British imagination. Once established though, these asylums, which were staffed by Indians and populated by Indians, quickly became arenas in which the designs of the British were contested and confronted. Mills argues that power is everywhere and is behind every action; colonial power is therefore just another way to assert control over the less powerful. This social history draws on official archives and documents based in Scotland, England and India. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in history, sociology, or the general interest reader.
Annual Administration and Progress Report on the Insane Asylums (Lunatic Asylums) in the Bombay Presidency (Annual Report of the Lunatic Asylums under the Government of Bombay-Annual Report on the Mental Hospitals in the Bombay Presidency) for the year 1873-74 [etc.].
Title | Annual Administration and Progress Report on the Insane Asylums (Lunatic Asylums) in the Bombay Presidency (Annual Report of the Lunatic Asylums under the Government of Bombay-Annual Report on the Mental Hospitals in the Bombay Presidency) for the year 1873-74 [etc.]. PDF eBook |
Author | BOMBAY, Presidency of. Office of the Surgeon General |
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A Joint Enterprise
Title | A Joint Enterprise PDF eBook |
Author | Preeti Chopra |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0816670366 |
An in-depth look at the urban history of British Bombay.
Report on the Lunatic Asylums Under the Government of Bombay Triennial (1912 Ff.: Triennial Report of the Lunatic Asylums Under the Government of Bombay).
Title | Report on the Lunatic Asylums Under the Government of Bombay Triennial (1912 Ff.: Triennial Report of the Lunatic Asylums Under the Government of Bombay). PDF eBook |
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Release | 1904 |
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