Shilpi Rajpal
Biographic Data
| ID | 3785700 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shilpi Rajpal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shilpi |
| FAMILY NAME | Rajpal |
| SIGNATURE | RAJPAL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | independent scholar |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7478-7799 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Desperate Remedies
Toward a new relationship between history and global mental health
This paper explores the relationship between historical research and the field of global mental health. It identifies a gap in the current literature, and argues that an in-depth historical approach is critical for understanding and overcoming current challenges and controversies in global mental health. The authors propose that a thick historical analysis has the capacity to broaden and diversify the discussion about the core concepts in global …
Psychiatrists and psychiatry in late colonial India
The history of professionalisation of psychiatry in India is an array of parallel histories. The article describes the variegated processes of professionalisation, modernisation and Indianisation and the impediments that colonialism created in their path. It charts the reification of the professional identity of a psychiatrist which was uniquely different from the Western counterpart. The process that began at the turn of the twentieth century wa…
Biswamoy Pati
Colonial Psychiatry in Mid-nineteenth Century India
This article is largely based on historical analysis of an overlooked and unexplored colonial document. The Sir James Clark Enquiry of 1868, conducted by the Government of India, contains rich evidence of the mindset of policymakers and those who implemented colonial psychiatry in 14 institutions. While the state regarded the asylum system as burdensome, it made ample efforts to sequester the insane. In view of such ambivalence, the article scrut…
Quotidian Madness
This article focuses on the ‘internal’ histories of the lunatic asylums in colonial north India. It looks closely at the asylums in the Punjab and the United Provinces. The routinized life of the inmates revolved around ‘employment and amusement’, ‘diet and space’, ‘reform and reward’ and ‘resistance and adjustment’. The trope of the mundane provides a microscopic lens to delve deeper into the banal social lives of inmates behind the asylum walls…
Parimala V. Rao, Foundation of Tilak’s Nationalism, Discrimination, Education and Hindutva . New Delhi
Colonial Psychiatry in Mid-nineteenth Century India
This article is largely based on historical analysis of an overlooked and unexplored colonial document. The Sir James Clark Enquiry of 1868, conducted by the Government of India, contains rich evidence of the mindset of policymakers and those who implemented colonial psychiatry in 14 institutions. While the state regarded the asylum system as burdensome, it made ample efforts to sequester the insane. In view of such ambivalence, the article scrut…
Psychiatrists and psychiatry in late colonial India
The history of professionalisation of psychiatry in India is an array of parallel histories. The article describes the variegated processes of professionalisation, modernisation and Indianisation and the impediments that colonialism created in their path. It charts the reification of the professional identity of a psychiatrist which was uniquely different from the Western counterpart. The process that began at the turn of the twentieth century wa…
Parimala V. Rao, Foundation of Tilak’s Nationalism, Discrimination, Education and Hindutva . New Delhi
Colonial Psychiatry in Mid-nineteenth Century India
This article is largely based on historical analysis of an overlooked and unexplored colonial document. The Sir James Clark Enquiry of 1868, conducted by the Government of India, contains rich evidence of the mindset of policymakers and those who implemented colonial psychiatry in 14 institutions. While the state regarded the asylum system as burdensome, it made ample efforts to sequester the insane. In view of such ambivalence, the article scrut…
Quotidian Madness
This article focuses on the ‘internal’ histories of the lunatic asylums in colonial north India. It looks closely at the asylums in the Punjab and the United Provinces. The routinized life of the inmates revolved around ‘employment and amusement’, ‘diet and space’, ‘reform and reward’ and ‘resistance and adjustment’. The trope of the mundane provides a microscopic lens to delve deeper into the banal social lives of inmates behind the asylum walls…
Biswamoy Pati
Psychiatrists and psychiatry in late colonial India
The history of professionalisation of psychiatry in India is an array of parallel histories. The article describes the variegated processes of professionalisation, modernisation and Indianisation and the impediments that colonialism created in their path. It charts the reification of the professional identity of a psychiatrist which was uniquely different from the Western counterpart. The process that began at the turn of the twentieth century wa…
Toward a new relationship between history and global mental health
This paper explores the relationship between historical research and the field of global mental health. It identifies a gap in the current literature, and argues that an in-depth historical approach is critical for understanding and overcoming current challenges and controversies in global mental health. The authors propose that a thick historical analysis has the capacity to broaden and diversify the discussion about the core concepts in global …
Desperate Remedies
Psychology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Mental Health and Psychiatry (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychiatry (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (3 works) · History (3 works)