Emotions and Modernity in Colonial India From Balance to Fervor

Margrit Pernau, Senior Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin

Margrit Pernau is Senior Researcher at the Center for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin and Extraordinary Professor at the Freie Universit?t Berlin. She holds a PhD from Heidelberg University and a Habilitation from Bielefeld University. Her latest publications include, Ashraf into Middle Classes. Muslims in Nineteenth-Century Delhi, OUP Delhi 2013; Civilizing Emotions. Concepts in Nineteenth Century Asia and Europe, OUP Oxford 2015(with Helge Jordheim et al.); Feeling Communities (Special issue, Indian Economic and Social History Review, 2017; Monsoon Feelings: A History of Emotions in the Rain (with Imke Rajamani and Katherine Schofield), Delhi, Niyogi Books, 2018. Besides, she has written numerous articles on the history of emotions, modern Indian history, historical semantics, comparative studies, and translation studies. She is presently working on emotions and temporality, focusing on the concept of modernity in Urdu in the twentieth century.