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Grief and the shaping of Muslim communities in north India, c. 1857-1940s, Eve Tignol

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Grief and the shaping of Muslim communities in north India, c. 1857-1940s

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Eve Tignol

Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Drawing on approaches from the history of emotions, Eve Tignol investigates how they were collectively cultivated and debated for the shaping of Muslim community identity and for political mobilisation in north India in the wake of the Uprising of 1857 until the 1940s. Utilising a rich corpus of Urdu sources evoking the past, including newspapers, colonial records, pamphlets, novels, letters, essays and poetry, she explores the ways in which writing took on a particular significance for Muslim elites in North India during this period. Uncovering different episodes in the history of British India as vignettes, she highlights a multiplicity of emotional styles and of memory works, and their controversial nature. The book demonstrates the significance of grief as a proactive tool in creating solidarities and deepens our understanding of the dynamics behind collective action in colonial north India.--, Provided by publisher

List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- Note on transliteration -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- A garden lost: grief and pain in 1857 shahr āshob poetry -- Useful grief: the Aligarh movement -- Memorials, feelings, and public recognition, c. 1911-1915 -- Empowering grief: poetry and anti-colonial sentiments in the early twentieth century -- Nostalgia in Delhi: local memory and identity, c. 1910-1940 -- Epilogue -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index