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Curing madness? A social and cultural history of insanity in colonial North India, 1800–1950s

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Shilpi Rajpal’s Curing Madness? gives a grand tour of psychiatric institutions in pre-Independence India. The book is aligned to the existing scholarship on the history of psychiatry in colonial In... Click to show full abstract

Shilpi Rajpal’s Curing Madness? gives a grand tour of psychiatric institutions in pre-Independence India. The book is aligned to the existing scholarship on the history of psychiatry in colonial In...

Keywords: history insanity; curing madness; social cultural; madness social; history; cultural history

Journal Title: Asian Studies Review
Year Published: 2021

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