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Lunatic Asylums in Colonial Bombay


Lunatic Asylums in Colonial Bombay

Shackled Bodies, Unchained Minds
Mental Health in Historical Perspective

von: Sarah Ann Pinto

53,49 €

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 28.08.2018
ISBN/EAN: 9783319942445
Sprache: englisch

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<p></p><p>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.&nbsp; 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.</p><p></p>
1 Introduction.- 2 Indian Insanity and the Local-Colonial Contest for its Treatment.- 3 The Asylum as ‘Middle Ground’: Contestations and Negotiations.- 4 The ‘Common Sense’ Treatment of Indian Insanity.- 5 Unsound Soundscapes: Shrieks, Shouts and Songs.- 6 Public Perceptions of the <i>Pagal Khana</i>.- 7 Conclusion: Shackled Bodies, Unchained Minds.
<p><b>Sarah Ann Pinto</b> completed her PhD in History from Victoria University of Wellington in 2017. Her awards include the ‘Bowen Prize for the Best Student in History, 2017', and the ‘Fr Henry Heras Prize, 2008’. Her passion for history and healing motivates her research. Through her work, she intends to enable new narratives in mental health treatment.</p><p><br></p><p>&nbsp; &nbsp;</p>
<p>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 failure of superintendents to achieve hegemony. Thirdly, it discusses the European superintendents’ ‘common-sense’ treatment of Indian insanity.&nbsp;The book then assesses the soundscapes of Bombay’s asylums, and finally, it examines the extent to which public perceptions influenced the use of the asylum.&nbsp;&nbsp;Lunatic asylums left a legacy of historical trauma for the indigenous community because of their coercive and custodial character.&nbsp;This book aims to disrupt that legacy of trauma and&nbsp;to enable new narratives in mental health treatment in India.<br></p><div><br></div>
Takes the experience of Indian patients, families and local practitioners as the focus of this study, rather than psychiatry Traces the history of lunatic asylums in Bombay, drawing extensively on Indian and British archival sources Offers a new narrative of mental health treatment in India through its exploration of the historical traumas associated with these colonial institutions
“Original, courageous and evocative, Sarah Pinto’s history of colonial asylums is a powerful work. Attending to the experiences of patients and their families, the soundscapes and spaces of the asylum, Pinto goes beyond existing understandings to show us the persistence, the failures and the consequences of a painful past. The book is a rich addition to the histories of colonial India and to health, and introduces a historian with a skillful sensitivity to people and difficult predicaments in the past and present.” (Charlotte Macdonald, Professor of History, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)<p>“In this pioneering study of asylums in the Bombay Presidency Sarah Pinto argues that the colonial imposition of asylums quickly became subverted. Attentive to the everyday workings of the asylums and the views of them by the communities in which they operated, this study suggests how understanding the history of the treatment of the mentally ill is vital to reconceptualising theirtreatment today.” (Barbara Brookes, Professor of History, University of Otago, New Zealand)<br></p>

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