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Madness, Cannabis and Colonialism

Hardcover • 2000 • English

Madness, Cannabis and Colonialism

By James Mills

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This fascinating, entertaining and often gruelling book by James Mills examines the lunatic asylums set up by the British in nineteenth-century India to house the mad from among the local population. The author traces the growth in the asylum system which followed the Indian uprising of 1857 and asserts that this was fuelled by a British fear of itinerant and dangerous Indians. Once established, however, these asylums, staffed by Indians and populated by Indians, quickly became arenas where the ...Show more

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ISBN

9780333793343

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Published year

2000

Language

English

Original title

Madness, Cannabis and Colonialism

Format

Hardcover

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