The medical discipline of psychiatry in India is going through a phase of introspection and widening its horizons. The Psychological Impact of the Partition of India reflects this change. Edited by Sanjeev Jain, a professor of psychiatry at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, and Alok Sarin, clinical psychiatrist at the Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Science and Research, the book consists of research papers that bring together psychiatry, history, literature and sociology to understand this cataclysmic event.
Why is it important to look back at the horrific brutality that marred the. . .