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Author:

Pernau, Margrit author.

Title:

Emotions and modernity in colonial India : from balance to fervor / Margrit Pernau.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

xi, 332 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

Emotions--History--19th century.
Emotional intelligence--India--History--19th century.
India--Civilization--19th century.
India--Social conditions--19th century.
India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Appendix: Emotions in South Asian Historiography and Anthropology. 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.

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.

ISBN:

019949777X
9780199497775

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1125071321

LCCN:

2019346719

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)