Psychiatrists and psychiatry in late colonial India

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8961510
AutoresShilpi Rajpal (0000-0001-7478-7799, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali, autor correspondente)
Ano2018
Volume55
Fascículo4
Páginas515-548
Data de publicação2018-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Indian Economic & Social History Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0019-4646 • E-ISSN: 0973-0893
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0019464618796901
OpenAlexW2894792782
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas31

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 was far from complete even on the eve of independence. It argues that psychiatry remained at the margins of medicine and the colonial state maintained an indifferent attitude towards development of the mental sciences. Highlighting contributions of individual psychiatrists and juxtaposing them with those of the state, this article situates psychiatrists as historical actors and how the emergence of psychiatry was enmeshed with political histories of the period

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