It takes the average reader 4 hours and 3 minutes to read Lunatic Asylums in Colonial Bombay by Sarah Ann Pinto
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This book traces the historical roots of the problems in India’s mental health care system. It accounts for indigenous experiences of the lunatic asylum in the Bombay Presidency (1793-1921). The book argues that the colonial lunatic asylum failed to assimilate into Indian society and therefore remained a failed colonial-medical enterprise. It begins by assessing the implications of lunatic asylums on indigenous knowledge and healing traditions. It then examines the lunatic asylum as a ‘middle-ground’, and the European superintendents’ ‘common-sense’ treatment of Indian insanity. Furthermore,...
Lunatic Asylums in Colonial Bombay by Sarah Ann Pinto is 242 pages long, and a total of 60,984 words.
This makes it 82% the length of the average book. It also has 75% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 33 minutes to read Lunatic Asylums in Colonial Bombay aloud.
Lunatic Asylums in Colonial Bombay is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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