Emotions and Modernity in Colonial India
From Balance to Fervor
Price: 1495.00 INR
ISBN:
9780199497775
Publication date:
23/09/2019
Hardback
348 pages
216.0x140.0mm
Price: 1495.00 INR
ISBN:
9780199497775
Publication date:
23/09/2019
Hardback
348 pages
216.0x140.0mm
Margrit Pernau
- Given the increasing interest in emotions at a global scale, whether it is in advertising, in politics, or in academia, this book will be relevant.
- Historians, sociologists, political scientists, and also general readers who want to understand how emotions change historically, and how they shape both the private lives and politics will find this book very engaging
Rights: World Rights
Margrit Pernau
Description
With this pioneering project, Margrit Pernau brings the ‘history of emotions’ approach to South Asian studies. A theoretically sophisticated and erudite investigation, Emotions and Modernity in Colonial India maps the history of emotions in India between the uprising of 1857 and World War I. Situating the prevalent experiences, interpretations, and practices of emotions of the time within the context of the major political events of colonial India, Pernau goes beyond the dominant narrative of colonial modernity and its fixation with discipline and restrain, and traces the contemporary transformation from a balance in emotions to the resurgence of fervor.
The current volume is based on a large archive of sources in Urdu, many being explored for the first time. Pernau grounds her work on such diverse sources as philosophical and theological treatises on questions of morality, advice literature, journals and newspapers, nostalgic descriptions of courtly culture, and even children’s literature. This close look into individual experiences, practices, and interpretations reveals the myriad emotions of the day, and the importance of these micro-histories in presenting an alternative account of colonial India.
About the Author
Margrit Pernau is senior researcher at the Center for the History of Emotions, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, and Extraordinary Professor at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
Margrit Pernau
Table of contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Note on Transcription
1. Introduction
2. 1857: Violence and Emotional Mobilization
3. Emotion Concepts: From Aristotelian Legacy to Modern Journalism
4. Tahzib ul Akhlaq: The Negotiation of the Civilizing Mission
5. The Begams of Bhopal: Three Generations of Advice to Women
6. Journals for Children: Emotions and Entertainment
7. Ashraf 'Ali Thanavi: Sermons and Pious Feelings
8. 'Abdul Majid Daryabadi: The Translation of Psychology
9. Nostalgia: Tears of Blood for a Lost World
10. Kanpur 1913: Feeling Passionately for the House of God
11. Conclusion
Appendix: Emotions in South Asian Historiography and Anthropology
Bibliography
Names Index
General Index
Margrit Pernau
Margrit Pernau
Description
With this pioneering project, Margrit Pernau brings the ‘history of emotions’ approach to South Asian studies. A theoretically sophisticated and erudite investigation, Emotions and Modernity in Colonial India maps the history of emotions in India between the uprising of 1857 and World War I. Situating the prevalent experiences, interpretations, and practices of emotions of the time within the context of the major political events of colonial India, Pernau goes beyond the dominant narrative of colonial modernity and its fixation with discipline and restrain, and traces the contemporary transformation from a balance in emotions to the resurgence of fervor.
The current volume is based on a large archive of sources in Urdu, many being explored for the first time. Pernau grounds her work on such diverse sources as philosophical and theological treatises on questions of morality, advice literature, journals and newspapers, nostalgic descriptions of courtly culture, and even children’s literature. This close look into individual experiences, practices, and interpretations reveals the myriad emotions of the day, and the importance of these micro-histories in presenting an alternative account of colonial India.
About the Author
Margrit Pernau is senior researcher at the Center for the History of Emotions, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, and Extraordinary Professor at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
Read MoreTable of contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Note on Transcription
1. Introduction
2. 1857: Violence and Emotional Mobilization
3. Emotion Concepts: From Aristotelian Legacy to Modern Journalism
4. Tahzib ul Akhlaq: The Negotiation of the Civilizing Mission
5. The Begams of Bhopal: Three Generations of Advice to Women
6. Journals for Children: Emotions and Entertainment
7. Ashraf 'Ali Thanavi: Sermons and Pious Feelings
8. 'Abdul Majid Daryabadi: The Translation of Psychology
9. Nostalgia: Tears of Blood for a Lost World
10. Kanpur 1913: Feeling Passionately for the House of God
11. Conclusion
Appendix: Emotions in South Asian Historiography and Anthropology
Bibliography
Names Index
General Index
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