Lunatic Asylums In Colonial Bombay

Author : Sarah Ann Pinto
Publisher : Springer
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319942445

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Lunatic Asylums in Colonial Bombay by Sarah Ann Pinto Pdf

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.

Author : Sarah Pinto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 331994245X

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Lunatic Asylums in Colonial Bombay by Sarah Pinto Pdf

Author : Shilpi Rajpal
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190993320

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Curing Madness? by Shilpi Rajpal Pdf

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.

Author : J. Mills
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230286047

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Madness, Cannabis and Colonialism by J. Mills Pdf

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.

Author : Preeti Chopra
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780816670369

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A Joint Enterprise by Preeti Chopra Pdf

An in-depth look at the urban history of British Bombay.

Author : David Arnold
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0719024951

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Imperial Medicine and Indigenous Societies by David Arnold Pdf

In recent years it has become apparent that the interaction of imperialism with disease, medical research, and the administration of health policies is considerably more complex. This book reflects the breadth and interdisciplinary range of current scholarship applied to a variety of imperial experiences in different continents. Common themes and widely applicable modes of analysis emerge include the confrontation between indigenous and western medical systems, the role of medicine in war and resistance, and the nature of approaches to mental health. The book identifies disease and medicine as a site of contact, conflict and possible eventual convergence between western rulers and indigenous peoples, and illustrates the contradictions and rivalries within the imperial order. The causes and consequences of this rapid transition from white man's medicine to public health during the latter decades of the nineteenth and early years of the twentieth centuries are touched upon. By the late 1850s, each of the presidency towns of Calcutta, Bombay and Madras could boast its own 'asylum for the European insane'; about twenty 'native lunatic asylums' had been established in provincial towns. To many nineteenth-century British medical officers smallpox was 'the scourge of India'. Following the British discovery in 1901 of a major sleeping sickness epidemic in Uganda, King Leopold of Belgium invited the recently established Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine to examine his Congo Free State. Cholera claimed its victims from all levels of society, including Americans, prominent Filipinos, Chinese, and Spaniards.

Author : Harald Fischer-Tiné,Michael Mann
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843310914

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Colonialism as Civilizing Mission by Harald Fischer-Tiné,Michael Mann Pdf

Inherent in colonialism was the idea of self-legitimation, the most powerful tool of which was the colonizer's claim to bring the fruits of progress and modernity to the subject people. In colonial logic, people who were different because they were inferior had to be made similar - and hence equal - by civilizing them. However, once this equality had been attained, the very basis for colonial rule would vanish. Colonialism as Civilizing Mission explores British colonial ideology at work in South Asia. Ranging from studies on sport and national education, to pulp fiction to infanticide, to psychiatric therapy and religion, these essays on the various forms, expressions and consequences of the British 'civilizing mission' in South Asia shed light on a topic that even today continues to be an important factor in South Asian politics.

Author : Biswamoy Pati,Mark Harrison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351262187

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Society, Medicine and Politics in Colonial India by Biswamoy Pati,Mark Harrison Pdf

The history of medicine and disease in colonial India remains a dynamic and innovative field of research, covering many facets of health, from government policy to local therapeutics. This volume presents a selection of essays examining varied aspects of health and medicine as they relate to the political upheavals of the colonial era. These range from the micro-politics of medicine in princely states and institutions such as asylums through to the wider canvas of sanitary diplomacy as well as the meaning of modernity and modernization in the context of British rule. The volume reflects the diversity of the field and showcases exciting new scholarship from early-career researchers as well as more established scholars by bringing to light many locations and dimensions of medicine and modernity. The essays have several common themes and together offer important insights into South Asia’s experience of modernity in the years before independence. Cutting across modernity and colonialism, some of the key themes explored here include issues of race, gender, sexuality, law, mental health, famine, disease, religion, missionary medicine, medical research, tensions between and within different medical traditions and practices and India’s place in an international context. This book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of modern South Asian history, sociology, politics and anthropology as well as specialists in the history of medicine.

Author : Satadru Sen
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843311775

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Colonial Childhoods by Satadru Sen Pdf

Colonial Childhoods is about the politics of childhood in India between the 1860s and the 1930s. It examines not only the redefinition of the 'child' in the cultural and intellectual climate of colonialism, but also the uses of the child, the parent and the family in colonizing and nationalizing projects. It investigates also the complications of transporting metropolitan discourses of childhood, adulthood and expertise across the lines of race. Focused on reformatories and laws for juvenile delinquents, and boarding schools for aristocratic children, it illuminates a vital area of conflict and accommodation in a colonial society. A key addition to Anthem's South Asian series and also to the growing discipline of Childhood and Colonial Childhood studies.

Author : Christiane Hartnack
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015057652557

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Psychoanalysis in Colonial India by Christiane Hartnack Pdf

This work looks at the early development of psychoanalysis in colonial India, from the point of view of Indian thinkers as well as from British analysts working in India. It shows how Indian thinkers challenged Freudian concepts by applying them to different social, familial, and cultural contexts.

Author : Shinjini Das
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781108420624

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Vernacular Medicine in Colonial India by Shinjini Das Pdf

Interrelated histories of colonial medicine, market and family reveal how Western homeopathy was translated and made vernacular in colonial India.

Author : Rebecca Wynter,Jennifer Wallis,Rob Ellis
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031229787

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Memory, Anniversaries and Mental Health in International Historical Perspective by Rebecca Wynter,Jennifer Wallis,Rob Ellis Pdf

This book is the first to explore memory, misremembering, forgetting, and anniversaries in the history of psychiatry and mental health. It challenges simplistic representations of the callous nature of mental health care in the past, while at the same time eschewing a celebratory and uncritical marking of anniversaries and individuals. Asking critical questions of the early Whiggish histories of mental health care, the book problematizes the idea of a shared professional and institutional history, and the abiding faith placed in the reform of medicine, administration, and even patients. It contends that much post-1800 legislation drafted to ensure reform, acted to preserve beliefs about the ‘bad old days’ and a ‘brighter future’ in the state memories of imperial powers, which in turn exported these notions around the world. Conversely, the collection demonstrates the variety of remembering and forgetting, building on recent interest in the ideological and cultural linkages between past and present in international psychiatric practice. In this way, it seeks to trace the pathways of memory, exploring the direction of travel, and the perpetuation, remodeling, and uprooting of recollection. Chapter “The New Socialist Citizen and ‘Forgetting’ Authoritarianism: Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Revolution in Socialist Yugoslavia” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer. com.

Author : Mark Condos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108418317

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The Insecurity State by Mark Condos Pdf

A provocative examination of how the British colonial experience in India was shaped by chronic unease, anxiety, and insecurity.

Author : Biswamoy Pati,Mark Harrison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134042593

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The Social History of Health and Medicine in Colonial India by Biswamoy Pati,Mark Harrison Pdf

This book analyzes the diverse facets of the social history of health and medicine in colonial India. It explores a unique set of themes that capture the diversities of India, such as public health, medical institutions, mental illness and the politics and economics of colonialism. Based on inter-disciplinary research, the contributions offer valuable insight into topics that have recently received increased scholarly attention, including the use of opiates and the role of advertising in driving medical markets. The contributors, both established and emerging scholars in the field, incorporate sources ranging from palm leaf manuscripts to archival materials. This book will be of interest to scholars of history, especially the history of medicine and the history of colonialism and imperialism, sociology, social anthropology, cultural theory, and South Asian Studies, as well as to health workers and NGOs.

Author : Renee Linklater
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-10T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781773633848

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Decolonizing Trauma Work by Renee Linklater Pdf

In Decolonizing Trauma Work, Renee Linklater explores healing and wellness in Indigenous communities on Turtle Island. Drawing on a decolonizing approach, which puts the “soul wound” of colonialism at the centre, Linklater engages ten Indigenous health care practitioners in a dialogue regarding Indigenous notions of wellness and wholistic health, critiques of psychiatry and psychiatric diagnoses, and Indigenous approaches to helping people through trauma, depression and experiences of parallel and multiple realities. Through stories and strategies that are grounded in Indigenous worldviews and embedded with cultural knowledge, Linklater offers purposeful and practical methods to help individuals and communities that have experienced trauma. Decolonizing Trauma Work, one of the first books of its kind, is a resource for education and training programs, health care practitioners, healing centres, clinical services and policy initiatives.