Emotions and Modernity in Colonial India: From Balance to Fervor

by Margrit Pernau

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019949777X
• ISBN13: 9780199497775
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.7" x 8.7"