Madness, Cannabis and Colonialism
The 'Native Only' Lunatic Asylums of British India 1857-1900
AvJ. Mills
Inbunden, Engelska, 2000
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Beskrivning
This often gruelling text examines the lunatic asylums set up by the British in 19th-century India. The author asserts that there was a growth in asylums following the Indian Mutiny, fuelled by the fear of itinerant and dangerous individuals, which existed primarily in the British imagination. Once established though, these asylums, which were staffed and populated by Indians, quickly became arenas in which the designs of the British were contested and confronted. Mills argues that power is everywhere and is behind every action; colonial power is therefore just another way to assert control over the less powerful. This social history draws on archives and documents based in Scotland, England and India.
