title: Historicizing Indian psychiatry.
abstract: Our historical endeavour to map Indian psychiatry has largely remained linear, positivistic and evolutionary. Whether it starts from the ancient times or modern, it shows our past as a tale of victory for the western science, without questioning the borrowed paradigm. The use of historical methods for serious enquiry of psychiatry has been ignored. Emergence of a new genre of historicism that is critical of both colonialism and psychiatry as a universal science, has raised hopes to critically review the emergence of psychiatric knowledge.
authors: MBBS, Doctoral Candidate Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
authors: Amit Ranjan
authors: AR
authors: Basu