Open AccessMadness and sanity at the time of Indian independence
Author(s) -
Sanjeev Jain,
Pratima Murthy,
Alok Sarin
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
indian journal of psychiatry/indian journal of psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.485
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1998-3794
pISSN - 0019-5545
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5545.191999
Subject(s) - sanity , irrationality , independence (probability theory) , parallels , insanity , psychology , history , epistemology , philosophy , psychiatry , rationality , mathematics , engineering , mechanical engineering , statistics
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.