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Madness, cannabis and colonialism: the 'Native Only' lunatic asylums of British India 1857-1900

By: Mills, James H
Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: United States of America -- Palgrave Macmillan -- 2000Description: x, 227pISBN: 9780333793343Subject(s): Asylums | Cannabis | History | Psychiatric Disorders | Hospitals | Mental Disorders | Mental illness | Treatment | 19th centuryDDC classification: 362.21 MIL/M Summary: This book by James Mills examines the lunatic asylums set up by the British in nineteenth-century India to house the mad from among the local population. The author traces the growth in the asylum system which followed the Indian uprising of 1857 and asserts that this was fuelled by a British fear of itinerant and dangerous Indians. Once established, however, these asylums, staffed by Indians and populated by Indians, quickly became arenas where the designs of the British were contested and confronted.
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This book by James Mills examines the lunatic asylums set up by the British in nineteenth-century India to house the mad from among the local population. The author traces the growth in the asylum system which followed the Indian uprising of 1857 and asserts that this was fuelled by a British fear of itinerant and dangerous Indians. Once established, however, these asylums, staffed by Indians and populated by Indians, quickly became arenas where the designs of the British were contested and confronted.

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