Provincialising Concepts How to write about the Ashraf

<strong>Centre for Historical Studies School of Social Sciences</strong> a Lecture <strong>Provincialising Concepts How to write about the Ashraf</strong> <strong>MARGRIT PERNAU</strong> Center for the History of Emotions Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin <strong>1st April 2015</strong> Margrit Pernau is Senior Researcher at the Center for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. She studied History and Public Law at the University of Saarland and University of Heidelberg where she took her PhD in 1991. 1997-2003 Margrit Pernau conducted research in Delhi on the history of the Muslims of Delhi in the 19th century. She has been research fellow at the Social Science Research Center Berlin, the Modern Orient Centre in Berlin, the Institute of Advanced Studies in Freiburg and the EHESS in Paris. Beside the history of emotions her areas of interest include modern Indian history, the history of modern Islam, historical semantics, comparative studies, and translation studies. She is the author of an edited collected volume on the Delhi College (Delhi, OUP 2006), an edition of Persian newsletters from early 19th century Delhi (together with Yunus Jaffery, Delhi, OUP, 2009). Her most recent book, Ashraf into Middle Classes. Muslims in 19th century Delhi came out with OUP in 2013.