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Book SynopsisDrawing 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.
Trade Review'A remarkable study of political aesthetics, Eve Tignol's book reveals the shifting world of affect and emotion within which Muslim identity was reformulated in colonial India. It represents a real achievement.' Faisal Devji, University of Oxford
'Eve Tignol's theoretically sophisticated and beautifully laid out monograph is both an intellectual and an aesthetic feast. She explores the many shapes grief went through between 1857 and the 1940s, weaving together questions from the history of emotions and emotional practices with a close reading of poetry, showing a rare sensibility to language.' Margrit Pernau, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. A garden lost: grief and pain in 1857 shahr āshob 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.
