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Mad Tales From The Raj Book

Mad Tales From The Raj
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  • Mad Tales From The Raj
  • Written by author Waltraud Ernst
  • Published by Anthem Press, March 2010
  • This revised and enlarged reprint provides a comprehensive assessment of the British response to mental illness among both colonizers and the colonized during the East India Company’s rule in India.
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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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