This episode of HistoryChatter features an interview with Dr. Shilpi Rajpal of Copenhagen University. Rajpal published a pioneering social history of insanity and madness in nineteen and twentieth-century India; ‘Curing Madness: A Social and Cultural History of Insanity in Colonial North India 1800-1950s’.

In this conversation, Rajpal spoke about the changing ideas and meanings of insanity and madness, the colonial state’s laws towards controlling and managing it and the response of the nationalist literature towards these ideas. She spoke also about the gendered character of such histories.

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This episode of HistoryChatter features an interview with Dr. Shilpi Rajpal of Copenhagen University. Rajpal published a pioneering social history of insanity and madness in nineteen and twentieth-century India; &lsquo;Curing Madness: A Social and Cultural History of Insanity in Colonial North India 1800-1950s&rsquo;.
In this conversation, Rajpal spoke about the changing ideas and meanings of insanity and madness, the colonial state&rsquo;s laws towards controlling and managing it and the response of the nationalist literature towards these ideas. She spoke also about the gendered character of such histories.
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HistoryChatter offers an informed take on our shared pasts.

Designed and performed by Anirban Bandyopadhyay (Ph.D.), a trained historian and writer, the podcast offers a perspective on the past that shows how multiple interpretations of our pasts and our histories emerge.

HistoryChatter believes diversity is not, difference and that difference does not produce inferiority of superiority. More importantly, it believes the past is made of many stories, and many more stories about the past will never be known. 
Yet, the past is a necessity to understand how the present has come about and where it is heading. 
HistoryChatter is about stories about the past that walk us through the present. It believes  good history can be done with fun.

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HistoryChatter offers an informed take on our shared pasts.
Designed and performed by Anirban Bandyopadhyay (Ph.D.), a trained historian and writer, the podcast offers a perspective on the past that shows how multiple interpretations of our pasts and our histories emerge.
HistoryChatter believes diversity is not, difference and that difference does not produce inferiority of superiority. More importantly, it believes the past is made of many stories, and many more stories about the past will never be known. Yet, the past is a necessity to understand how the present has come about and where it is heading. HistoryChatter is about stories about the past that walk us through the present. It believes&nbsp; good history can be done with fun. Subscribe to "Historychatter" &amp; receive updates about our latest episodes.
Historychatter is an Ep.Log Media production.

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