Mad Tales from the Raj: Colonial Psychiatry in South Asia, 1800-58

Mad Tales from the Raj: Colonial Psychiatry in South Asia, 1800–58 is an authoritative assessment of western psychiatry within the context of British colonialism. This updated version provides a comprehensive study of official attitudes and practices in relation to both Indian and European patients during the dominance of the British East India Company. It includes a fully revised introduction that locates the work in relation to recent scholarly discourse in the field of history of colonia...