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Socio-Economic Status and Mental Morbidity in certain Tribes and Castes in India — a Cross-Cultural Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

D. N. Nandi ,
S. P. Mukherjee ,
G. C. Boral ,
G. Banerjee ,
A. Ghosh ,
S. Sarkar  and
S. Ajmany
D. N. Nandi
Affiliation:
University College of Medicine, Calcutta University, P–535, Raja Basanta Roy Road, Calcutta–700 029, India
S. P. Mukherjee
Affiliation:
University College of Science and Technology, Calcutta University
G. C. Boral
Affiliation:
Goenka Hospital, University College of Medicine, Calcutta University
G. Banerjee
Affiliation:
Mental Observation Ward (Psychiatry Unit, Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research), Calcutta
A. Ghosh
Affiliation:
R. G. Kar Medical College, Calcutta
S. Sarkar
Affiliation:
Durgapur Steel Hospital, Durgapur
S. Ajmany
Affiliation:
Gokhale Memorial Girls’ College, Calcutta
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Summary

The authors made a field-survey of mental morbidity in all the tribal and caste groups residing in a cluster of villages in West Bengal, India, and found that, in each group, higher socio-economic classes had higher rates of mental morbidity. Different groups having a similar cultural pattern showed no significant difference in their rates of morbidity. Groups having different cultural patterns differed significantly in their rates of morbidity. In the tribal groups some neurotic disorders were absent.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 136 , Issue 1 , January 1980 , pp. 73 - 85
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