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Dr Margrit Pernau is Senior Researcher at the Center for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Extraordinary Professor at the Freie Universität Berlin. She did her PhD on the princely state of Hyderabad in the 20th century followed by work on the Muslims of Delhi. For the last fifteen years she has been working on the history of emotions, resulting in a number of special issues and edited volumes, and several books. These include ‘Feeling Communities’, in Indian Economic and Social History Review (2017), ‘Studying Emotions in South Asia’, in South Asian History and Culture (2021), Emotions and Modernity: From Balance to Fervor (OUP, 2019), and Emotions and Temporality (CUP, 2021). Her previous publications include The Passing of Patrimonialism: Politics & Political Culture in Hyderabad, 1911-1948 (Manohar, 2000), the edited volume, Delhi College: Traditional Elites, the Colonial State and Education before 1857 (OUP, 2006), and Ashraf into Middle Classes: Muslims in Nineteenth Century Delhi (OUP, 2013). Her articles cover a wide range, from the history of concepts and temporality, to the history of education, print culture and films.
