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ASYLUMS – A NEW BRITISH INSTITUTION FOR EXPLOITATION OF NATIVE INDIANS.
ASYLUMS
WERE BUILT AWAY
FROM THE CITIES
WITH HIGH
ENCLOSURES
SUCH AS
BARRACKS LEFT BY
THE MILLITARY
“SEPOYEES”.
REPORTS PRESENTED BY
BRITISH OFFICIALS
CRIMINALS TAKEN IN AS LUNATICS
TOTAL MONEY PAID FOR THE SERVICE OF THE LUNATICS IN THE ASYLUM AND THERE OCCUPATIONS HAVE BEEN MENTIONED IN THE BRITISH REPORTS
THEY INMATES WERE PILGRIMS FROM DIFFERENT
STATES AND WERE PAID RS 90 FOR THEIR SERVICE
DISCOVERY OF NO INSANITY
WAS A FREAQUENT
ISSUE
PROVED THAT THE PEOPLE WERE NOT
INSANE BEFORE THE ENTERED THE ASYLUM
SHOWING THE INCLUSION OF DIFFERENT OCCUPATIONS OF
PEOPLE
Though the British intension for the establishment of mental asylums were to further open a new secret institution to curb the revolts and exploit Indian labour.But it resulted as a benefit institution for Indians later to get cured of their diseases and the concept of mental asylums emerged in India.
THE INDIAN LUNATIC ASYLUM ACT 1858.
PRESENTER-SUFIA SHAIKH