TY - BOOK AU - Rajpal,Shilpi TI - Curing madness?: a social and cultural history of insanity in colonial north India, 1800-1950s T2 - Oxford scholarship online SN - 9780190993337 (ebook) : AV - RA790.7 U1 - 362.2095409034 23 PY - 2020/// CY - New Delhi PB - Oxford University Press KW - Mental illness KW - Treatment KW - India, North KW - History KW - 19th century KW - 20th century KW - Mentally ill KW - Care N1 - This edition also issued in print: 2020; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - This text focuses on the institutional and non-institutional histories of madness in colonial north India. It proves that 'madness' and its 'cure' are shifting categories which assumed new meanings and significance as knowledge travelled across cultural, medical, national, and regional boundaries UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190128012.001.0001 ER -