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Curing Madness? by Shilpi Rajpal, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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Curing Madness? by Shilpi Rajpal, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
Curing Madness? by Shilpi Rajpal, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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Curing Madness? by Shilpi Rajpal, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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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 regionalboundaries. 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 frominsanity 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 medicaladvice literature of the era. Taking these into account Shilpi Rajpal moves beyond asylum-centric histories to examine extensive archival materials gathered from various repositories. | Curing Madness? by Shilpi Rajpal, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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