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PD Dr. Margrit Pernau

Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung
Berlin
Guest Fellow
01.01.11-31.03.11

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Born 1962; 1981-1986 German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes); 1987 DAAD. Hyderabad; 1991 Dr. phil. in Modern History at University of Heidelberg; 1993-1994 Training as an archivist, State Archive of Rhenania, Koblenz (practical part of the training); 1995-1997 Research project on "Lifestyles. The Catholic milieu in Hennef (Rhineland)", accompanying this: Adult education in the archdiocese of Cologne; 2002-2005 Project funded by the Volkswagen Foundation on the research project "Plural Identities of Muslims in Old Delhi in the 19th century", University of Erfurt 1997-2003 Archival Studies in Delhi on "Plural Identities of Muslims in Old Delhi in the 19th century”; 2006 Research Fellow at the Social Science Research Center Berlin; 2006-2007 Research Fellow at the Modern Orient Centre Berlin in the Programme Development Department; 2007 Habilitation in Mondern History at University of Bielefeld; 2008 Habilitation Prize of the Association of German Historians; since 2008 Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin; since 2008 Member of the Advisory Board of "Concepta" (International Research School in Conceptual History and Political Thought); since 2009 Elected Member of the board of editors of "Geschichte und Gesellschaft - Journal of historical Social Sciences"

PUBLICATIONS

- Pernau, M. (2010). Shifting globalities - changing headgear: The Indian muslims between turban, hat and fez. In U. Freitag & A. v. Oppen (Eds.), Translocality: The study of globalising processes from a southern perspective (Studies in Global Social History No. 4) (pp. 249-267). Leiden: Brill.

- Pernau, M., & Jaffery, Y. (Eds.). (2009). Information and the public sphere: Persian newsletters from Mughal Delhi. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

- Frevert, U., & Pernau, M. (2009). Europa ist eine Frau: Jung und aus Kleinasien. Beitrag zum Themenschwerpunkt "Europäische Geschichte - Geschlechtergeschichte". Themenportal Europäische Geschichte. Retrieved from http://www.europa.clio-online.de/2009/Article=401 Full text

- Juneja, M., & Pernau, M. (2009). Lost in translation: Transcending boundaries in comparative history. In H.-G. Haupt & J. Kocka (Eds.), Comparative and transnational history: Central European approaches and new perspectives (pp. 105-129). New York: Berghahn.

- Pernau, M. (2009). An ihren Gefühlen sollt Ihr sie erkennen: Eine Verflechtungsgeschichte des britischen Zivilitätsdiskurses (ca. 1750-1860) ["By their feelings you shall know them": An entangled history of the British discourse on civility (c.1750-1860). Geschichte und Gesellschaft, 35, 249-281.

- Pernau, M. (2009). Introduction. In M. Pernau & Y. Jaffery (Eds.), Information and the public sphere: Persian newsletters from Mughal Delhi (pp. 1-33). New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

- Juneja, M., & Pernau, M. (Eds.). (2008). Religion und Grenzen in Indien und Deutschland: Auf dem Weg zu einer transnationalen Historiographie. Göttingen: V & R unipress.

- Pernau, M. (2008). Bürger mit Turban: Muslime in Delhi im 19. Jahrhundert. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

- Pernau, M. (2000). The passing of patrimonialism: Politics and political culture in Hyderabad 1911 - 1948. New Delhi: Manohar.

- Pernau, M. (1992). Verfassung und politische Kultur im Wandel: Der indische Fürstenstaat Hyderabad 1911-48 (Beiträge zur Südasienforschung No. 152). Stuttgart: Steiner.


FRIAS research project

„Bürger mit Turban“

The book focuses on the history of the Muslims in Delhi in the long nineteenth century, from the British conquest in 1803 to the end of the Khilafat movement in 1922. The central thesis of the book is that religious identity became central only towards the last third of the nineteenth century, and that this development was tightly linked to the creation of a middle class. This middle class was based on a new concept of respectability (sharafat), which permitted at the same time to draw a distance from the old nobility, to bring the learned section of the community (administrators, scholars and religious leaders) closer to the businessmen and demarcate it sharply from the subalterns.