Houses of madness, insanity and asylums of Bengal in nineteenth-century India, Debjani Das
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Houses of madness, insanity and asylums of Bengal in nineteenth-century India, Debjani Das
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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non fiction
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Houses of madness
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electronic resource
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dictionariesbibliography
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933591394
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Debjani Das
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Oxford scholarship online.
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insanity and asylums of Bengal in nineteenth-century India
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'Houses of Madness' is a history of asylums of colonial Bengal in the 19th century. It explores these institutions through several phases that not only involved changes in medical treatment and its interpretation, but also the question of spatial distribution within these institutions--, Provided by Publisher
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