Curing madness? : a social and cultural history of insanity in colonial north India, 1800-1950s / Shilpi Rajpal.

This text focuses 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 re...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Oxford Scholarship Online)
Main Author: Rajpal, Shilpi (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Oxford scholarship online.
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