Grief and the Shaping of Muslim Communities in North India, C. - 18571940

Eve Tignol investigates the impact of collective grief on Muslim community formation in north India from 1857 to the 1940s.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. A garden lost: grief and pain in 1857 shahr ¿shob poetry; 2. Useful grief: the Aligarh movement; 3. Memorials, feelings, and public recognition, c. 1911-1915; 4. Empowering grief: poetry and anti-colonial sentiments in the early twentieth century; 5. Nostalgia in Delhi: local memory and identity, c. 1910-1940; Epilogue.

About the author

Eve Tignol is CNRS Research Fellow at the Institute of Asian Studies in Marseille.

Summary

Drawing on approaches from the history of emotions, Eve Tignol investigates the impact of collective grief on Muslim community formation in north India. This innovative study highlights how emotions were collectively cultivated and debated for the shaping of Muslim identity and for political mobilisation from 1857 to the 1940s.

Product details

• Authors: Eve Tignol, Eve (Centre National De La Recherche Scien Tignol, Eve (Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) Tignol
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.11.2024
• EAN: 9781009297677
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0929767-7
• No. of pages: 273
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); History of Ideas, HISTORY / Asia / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Social and cultural history, Asian History, South Asian history; Urdu literature; history and memory