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Emotions and modernity in colonial India : from balance to fervor

Title: Emotions and modernity in colonial India : from balance to fervor / Margrit Pernau.
Author: Pernau, Margrit
Publication: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2019.

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xi, 332 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

Emotions and Modernity in Colonial India investigates the experiences, interpretations and practices of emotions in India between 1857 and the First World War. It is based on a large archive of sources in Urdu, many explored for the first time. These sources range from philosophical and theological treatises on questions of morality to advice literature, from journals to newspapers, from children's literature to nostalgic descriptions of the courtly culture, from sermons to psychological essays. Modernity for long has been viewed as a process which went along with a growing control over emotions - whether this control was regarded as linked to capitalism, to the modern bureaucratic state or interpreted as a process through which external control mechanisms moved inside the subject. As the case studies of this book show, this discipline has to be viewed together with the transformation from the ideal of balance and harmony to a desire for strong, visceral and even indomitable passions, showing the youthfulness and vigor of the community. Men (and a little later also women) increasingly strove for an experience of these strong emotions and attempted to inculcate them in others as well, and they devised new languages and practices to bring about these feelings.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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This bibliographic record is available under the Creative Commons CC0 "No Rights Reserved" license. The University of Florida Libraries, as creator of this bibliographic record, has waived all rights to it worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law.

Contents

Introduction -- 1857: Violence and Emotional Mobilization -- Emotion Concepts: From Aristotelian Legacy to Modern Journalism -- Tahzib ul Akhlaq: The Negotiation of the Civilizing Mission -- The Begams of Bhopal: Three Generations of Advice to Women -- Journals for Children: Emotions and Entertainment -- Ashraf 'Ali' Thanavi: Sermons and Pious Feelings -- Abdul Majid Daryabadi: The Translation of Psychology -- Nostalgia: Tears of Blood for a Lost World -- Kanpur 1913: Feeling Passionately for the House of God -- Conclustion -- Appendix: Emotions in South Asian Historiography and Anthropology.

ISBN

9780199497775
019949777X
9780190990824
0190990821

LCCN

2019346719

OCLC

on1125071321
1125071321
SCSB-14400420

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Princeton University Library