TY  - GEN
AU  - Ernst, Waltraud
TI  - Mad tales from the Raj: colonial psychiatry in South Asia, 1800-58
SN  - 9789380601489
U1  - 362.1968900954 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Delhi
PB  - Anthem Press
KW  - Public policy
KW  - Public policy - Health
KW  - Psychiatry - India - History - 19th century
KW  - Psychiatry - Great Britain - History - 19th century
KW  - British - Mental health - India--History - 19th century
KW  - India - History - British occupation, 1765-1947
KW  - History, 19th Century - India
KW  - Colonialism - history - Great Britain
N1  - "First published in the UK by Routledge 1991" - T.p. verso; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Mad Tales from the Raj’ is an extensively researched study of mental illness within the context of British colonialism in early nineteenth-century India. The author challenges the assumption that western medical psychology was impartial and highlights the extent to which it reflected British colonial ideology and practice. This long overdue reprint makes available in easily accessible form an authoritative assessment of western, institution-based psychiatry during the East India Company’s period. It includes a fully revised introduction that locates the work in relation to recent scholarly discourse in the field of history of colonial medicine as well as additional material on the treatment of the 'native insane'.
ER  -