‘Talking about Madness: A lost chapter from Delhi’s past’ a talk by Dr. Shilpi Rajpal at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 6th May 2015
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‘Talking about Madness: A lost chapter from Delhi’s past’ a talk by Dr. Shilpi Rajpal
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Venue : Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi - 110011
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Event Description : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a Seminar on ‘Talking about Madness: A lost chapter from Delhi’s past’ by Dr. Shilpi Rajpal, Independent Researcher, New Delhi.
Abstract:
The paper traces history of the Delhi lunatic asylum. The asylum was established in 1820’s. It was a ‘native’ lunatic asylum. The asylum in the period housed not more than forty inmates. The study of Delhi asylum’s record reveals the 1857 revolt’s brief interface with the madhouse. The asylum was permanently closed after 1899 as by 1 March 1900 onwards a new asylum at Lahore had been established and all the patients— 103 males and 35 females— of the Delhi asylum were transferred to the Lahore asylum on 23 March, 1900. Consequently, Punjab had become home for the only central lunatic asylum— the Lahore lunatic asylum. Apart from looking at the structural changes, this paper focuses on the internal history of the Delhi lunatic asylum. The annual reports of the Delhi lunatic asylum from 1870 to 1899 would aid in the unveiling of the nature of psychiatry. The available archival records are particularly revealing since, they mirror ongoing struggles between the staff and patients. They throw light on the views of the superintendent about treatment, medicine, reward, punishment, employment, amusement, and madness amongst the ‘native’; as well as the superintendent’s keenness for reform that shaped the asylum’s internal life. In this regard, both language and culture prove to be a crucial entry point into what constituted madness in the asylum’s records.
Speaker:
Dr. Shilpi Rajpal has recently received her doctorate from the Department of History, University of Delhi. Her PhD. research focussed on the history of psychiatry in colonial north India. She has presented papers at several national and international conferences. Her publications include ‘Colonial Psychiatry in Mid-Nineteenth Century: The James Clark Enquiry’, Forthcoming in South Asia Research, SAR 35.1, February 2015 and ‘Quotidian Madness: Time, Management and Asylums in Colonial North India, c. 1850-1947’, Forthcoming Studies in History, 31.1, August 2015.
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Venue : Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi - 110011
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Race Course(Yellow Line)'
Event Description : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to a Seminar on ‘Talking about Madness: A lost chapter from Delhi’s past’ by Dr. Shilpi Rajpal, Independent Researcher, New Delhi.
Abstract:
The paper traces history of the Delhi lunatic asylum. The asylum was established in 1820’s. It was a ‘native’ lunatic asylum. The asylum in the period housed not more than forty inmates. The study of Delhi asylum’s record reveals the 1857 revolt’s brief interface with the madhouse. The asylum was permanently closed after 1899 as by 1 March 1900 onwards a new asylum at Lahore had been established and all the patients— 103 males and 35 females— of the Delhi asylum were transferred to the Lahore asylum on 23 March, 1900. Consequently, Punjab had become home for the only central lunatic asylum— the Lahore lunatic asylum. Apart from looking at the structural changes, this paper focuses on the internal history of the Delhi lunatic asylum. The annual reports of the Delhi lunatic asylum from 1870 to 1899 would aid in the unveiling of the nature of psychiatry. The available archival records are particularly revealing since, they mirror ongoing struggles between the staff and patients. They throw light on the views of the superintendent about treatment, medicine, reward, punishment, employment, amusement, and madness amongst the ‘native’; as well as the superintendent’s keenness for reform that shaped the asylum’s internal life. In this regard, both language and culture prove to be a crucial entry point into what constituted madness in the asylum’s records.
Speaker:
Dr. Shilpi Rajpal has recently received her doctorate from the Department of History, University of Delhi. Her PhD. research focussed on the history of psychiatry in colonial north India. She has presented papers at several national and international conferences. Her publications include ‘Colonial Psychiatry in Mid-Nineteenth Century: The James Clark Enquiry’, Forthcoming in South Asia Research, SAR 35.1, February 2015 and ‘Quotidian Madness: Time, Management and Asylums in Colonial North India, c. 1850-1947’, Forthcoming Studies in History, 31.1, August 2015.
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‘Talking about Madness: A lost chapter from Delhi’s past’ a talk by Dr. Shilpi Rajpal at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 6th May 2015
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