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Madness, Cannabis and Colonialism: The 'Native Only' Lunatic Asylums of British India, 1857-1900
Madness Cannabis and Colonialism The 'Native Only' Lunatic Asylums of British India 18571900
Author: James Mills
This fascinating, entertaining, and often grueling book by James Mills 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 es...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780312233594
ISBN-10: 0312233590
Publication Date: 9/30/2000
Pages: 239
Edition: 1st.Printing
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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Book Type: Hardcover
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