Madness, Cannabis and Colonialism: The 'Native Only' Lunatic Asylums of British India, 1857-1900 by James Mills

Madness, Cannabis and Colonialism: The 'Native Only' Lunatic Asylums of British India, 1857-1900

James Mills

227 pages first pub 2000 (view editions)

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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. The author asserts that there was a growth in asylums following the Indian Mutiny, fuelled by t...

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