Abstract
Writers who have considered the asylums established by the British for Indian patients tend to agree that these places were rudimentary lock-ups for those admitted. Shridhar Sharma christens the period from 1858 to 1906 the ‘second phase of development’ and concludes that ‘the asylums then constructed were simply places of detention,’1 pointing to ‘the apathy and indifference on the part of the authorities at that time, to the needs of mental patients.’2 The work of Waltraud Ernst, although mainly focused on the asylums in British India for European patients, comes to a similar conclusion. She characterizes these institutions by the middle of the nineteenth century as simply ‘refuges or temporary receptacles.’3
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