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2 - Useful Grief

The Aligarh Movement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2023

Eve Tignol
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Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Irasia, Marseille
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This chapter examines the development of the āshob genre in the late 1870s and its contrasts with the post-1857 tradition. The context of the Russo-Turkish war prompted the circulation of shahr āshobs in the periodical press, which expanded to mourn worldwide ruin. Two distinct practices developed simultaneously: while the Awadh Punch built on the inherent plaintive dimension of grief to denounce oppression from the colonial state, Aligarh writers linked grief to regret to call their coreligionists to self-reformation. The emotional style of Altaf Husain Hali’s Musaddas (1879) and Shikwah-e Hind (1888), related to medieval Arabic elegies, became widely popular. The chapter shows how the Aligarh movement of Syed Ahmed Khan used it extensively to bolster elite community cohesion, especially during the anti-Congress campaign of 1888. Aligarh was then criticised for its manipulative recourse to emotion. The chapter highlights how Aligarhian discourses and practises were further criticised in light of the rise of early twentieth-century communal politics.

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Print publication year: 2023

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  • Useful Grief
  • Eve Tignol, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Irasia, Marseille
  • Book: Grief and the Shaping of Muslim Communities in North India, c. 1857–1940s
  • Online publication: 03 March 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009297684.003
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  • Useful Grief
  • Eve Tignol, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Irasia, Marseille
  • Book: Grief and the Shaping of Muslim Communities in North India, c. 1857–1940s
  • Online publication: 03 March 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009297684.003
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  • Useful Grief
  • Eve Tignol, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Irasia, Marseille
  • Book: Grief and the Shaping of Muslim Communities in North India, c. 1857–1940s
  • Online publication: 03 March 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009297684.003
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