Lunatic Asylums in Colonial Bombay Shackled Bodies, Unchained Minds /

• Main Author: Pinto, Sarah Ann (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Mental Health in Historical Perspective
• Subjects: Social history.; Asia-History.; Imperialism.; Medicine-History.; Social History.; History of South Asia.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; History of Medicine.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Indian Insanity and the Local-Colonial Contest for its Treatment
• 3 The Asylum as 'Middle Ground': Contestations and Negotiations
• 4 The 'Common Sense' Treatment of Indian Insanity
• 5 Unsound Soundscapes: Shrieks, Shouts and Songs
• 6 Public Perceptions of the Pagal Khana
• 7 Conclusion: Shackled Bodies, Unchained Minds.