R. McLain

Gender and Violence in British India (eBook, PDF)

The Road to Amritsar, 1914-1919

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In British India, the years during and following World War I saw imperial unity deteriorate into a bitter dispute over "native" effeminacy and India's postwar fitness for self-rule. This study demonstrates that increasingly ferocious dispute culminated in the actual physical violence of the Amritsar Massacre of 1919.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137448545
• Artikelnr.: 41836041

Autorenporträt

Robert McLain is Associate Professor of History at California State University Fullerton, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Strategies of Inclusion: Lajpat Rai and the Critique of the British Raj 2. Gandhi's War 3. Measures of Manliness: The Martial Races and the Politics of "Native" Effeminacy 4. Frontline Masculinity: The Indian Soldier at War 5. Rhetorical Violence and the Road to Amritsar

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1. Strategies of Inclusion: Lajpat Rai and the Critique of the British Raj
2. Gandhi's War 3. Measures of Manliness: The Martial Races and the
Politics of "Native" Effeminacy 4. Frontline Masculinity: The Indian
Soldier at War 5. Rhetorical Violence and the Road to Amritsar