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List of Illustrations ix
Preface xi
Chapter 1 Introduction: Colonizing the Mind 1
Chapter 2 Madness and the Politics of Colonial Rule 11
Ideological Positions 11
Bureaucracy, Corruption and Public Opinion 16
The Sick, the Poor and the Mad 23
Administrative Reforms and Legal Provision 30
Chapter 3 The Institutions 39
The Role of Institutionalization 39
Towards Uniformity 49
Inside the Institutions 58
Chapter 4 The Medical Profession 69
The Search for Fortune and Professional Recognition 69
The Medicalization of Madness 77
The Subordination of ‘Native’ Medicine 79
Medicine and Empire 82
Chapter 5 The Patients 87
‘Highly Irregular Conduct’ and ‘Neglect of Duty’ 87
‘Drawn Very Much from the Same Class’ 91
A Passage from India 93
The Changing Fortunes of Asylum Inmates 95
Being Insane in British India 96
Chapter 6 Medical Theories and Practices 99
Popular Images and Medical Concepts 99
‘Moral’ Therapy, ‘Mental’ Illness and ‘Physical’ Derangement 104
Diagnostics and Therapeutic Practice 108
Aetiology and Prognosis 110
Treatment 112
The Question of ‘Non-Restraint’ 115
Social Discrimination, Racial Prejudice and Medical Concepts 118
East is East, and West is Best 121
Chapter 7 Conclusion: ‘Mad Dogs and Englishmen… ’ 125
Primary Sources 133
Notes 137
Index 151
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