Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Trauma of India’s Partition

Metaphor for Madness

Av Sanjeev Jain, Alok Sarin

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This volume examines the devastating impact of India’s Partition on mental health services and individuals with mental illness. Occurring in mid-20th century, after the Holocaust and World War II, the Partition brought similar prejudice, trauma, and displacement in South Asia, yet its psychological consequences have remained largely unaddressed in medical education and practice.Edited by psychiatrists, the book breaks this silence by tracking the breakdown of civic society, the collapse of medical services, and violence against citizens during this cataclysmic event. Contributors draw from clinical experience, archival research, literature, media history, and political theory to investigate gendered violence, the division of mental hospitals, disrupted medical care, and the neglected inner lives of ordinary people. The book highlights how the failure to establish accountability, or discuss the psychological impact of violence on victims has blighted post-Partition nations. With post-colonial partitions continuing worldwide, it emphasizes how care for the ill and disabled—civilization’s defining feature—is forgotten amid political conflicts.This interdisciplinary work will resonate with students and researchers in psychiatry, psychology, social welfare, mental health policy, and political history, offering valuable insights into medical history, social psychiatry, trauma studies, health planning, and gender awareness.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum: 2026-10-16
Mått: 156 x 234 x 17 mm
Vikt: 560 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 198
Förlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN: 9781041153795

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Sanjeev Jain did his undergraduate medical studies at the University ofDelhi (Maulana Azad Medical College) and post-graduate specialization inpsychiatry at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences(NIMHANS), Bangalore, where, after many years as tenured faculty, he isnow Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry. He was a Commonwealth Fellow atCambridge University, UK, in 1993–1994, where, in addition to learningresearch methods in genetics, he developed an interest in the history ofpsychiatry. He is a clinician and a teacher, researches the genetic correlatesof psychiatric and neurological disease, and helped establish the moleculargenetics laboratory at NIMHANS. He was an adjunct faculty at the NationalCentre for Biological Sciences (part of the Tata Institute of FundamentalResearch), Bangalore, and now with Kasturba Medical College, Manipal. Hehas been involved in volunteer work with both governmental organizationsand NGOs, and was a member of the committee for drafting the MentalHealth Policy document for India. He has been researching the history ofmental health services in India from the colonial period to the contemporarytimes. This work has helped understand the interface between science andmedicine, and social responses to mental illness in India.Alok Sarin did his graduate and postgraduate studies at the All IndiaInstitute of Medical Sciences, specialized in psychiatry, and has been inactive clinical practice for the last 40 years. He has been an active memberof the Indian Psychiatric Society and has written and published widely;he too was a member of the committee that developed the Mental HealthPolicy for India. Apart from clinical practice, he has been particularlyinterested in areas of psycho-social rehabilitation and in involving the largercommunity in public discourses on mental health and disease. He has beenthe Chairperson of the National Board of the Richmond Fellowship Society,a voluntary organization working with chronic psychiatric illness, has alsobeen organizing the acclaimed lecture series the Canvas Askew. He has beena Senior Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Teen MurtiHouse, and was awarded the fellowship for research on the mental healthaspects of communal conflict. He has been an adjunct faculty at the BanyanAcademy of Leadership in Mental Health. He has also been actively involvedin researching the history of psychiatry in India, with a special interest in thehistory of the mental hospitals.

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