Madness and sanity at the time of Indian independence

The backdrop of the Indian Independence offers glimpses of many ‘metaphors of madness’. In this article, we explore this through a few instances, starting from 1857, around the time of the First War of Independence, to 1947, when India became an independent nation. Such metaphors have their parallel...

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Autores principales: Jain, Sanjeev, Murthy, Pratima, Sarin, Alok
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5100131/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28066017
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.191999
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spelling pubmed-51001312017-01-06 Madness and sanity at the time of Indian independence Jain, Sanjeev Murthy, Pratima Sarin, Alok Indian J Psychiatry From the Archives The backdrop of the Indian Independence offers glimpses of many ‘metaphors of madness’. In this article, we explore this through a few instances, starting from 1857, around the time of the First War of Independence, to 1947, when India became an independent nation. Such metaphors have their parallels both in historical as well as in contemporary times, where instances of one man's imagination becoming another's concept of irrationality and insanity continue. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC5100131/ /pubmed/28066017 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.191999 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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