Idioms of madness and colonial boundaries: The case of the European and "native" mentally Ill in early nineteenth-century British India

Comparative Studies in Society and History

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 153-181

  Ernst, Waltraud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

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