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

"This book contributes to significant on-going discussions on nationalism, collective emotions and memory in modern print cultures. It highlights how emotions were collectively cultivated and debated for the shaping of Muslim community identity and for political mobilisation in colonial India a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tignol, Eve, 1986- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 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.