The monsoon is the season of pouring rain and intense emotions: love and longing, hope and fear, pleasureand pain, devotion and joyous excess. Through a series of evocative essays exploring rain-drenched worldsof poetry, songs, paintings, architecture, films, gardens, festivals, music, and medicine, this lavishlyillustrated collection examines the history of monsoon feelings in South Asia from the twelfth century to thepresent. Each essay is written by a specialist in the field of South Asian arts and culture, and investigatesemotions as reflections and agents of social, cultural, and political change across borders of language andreligion and between different arts and cultural practices. This history of emotions in the rain is as rich,surprising, beautiful and devastating as the thundering monsoon clouds, and will delight general and scholarly audiences alike.