Gender and Violence in British India - The Road to Amritsar, 1914-1919

Informationen zum Autor Robert McLain is Associate Professor of History at California State University Fullerton, USA. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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• Authors: R McLain, R. McLain, Robert Mclain
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.08.2014
• EAN: 9781137448538
• ISBN: 978-1-137-44853-8
• No. of pages: 179
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; B, History, European History, Westeuropa, Indischer Subkontinent, military history, auseinandersetzen, Colonialism and imperialism, Western Europe, Asian History, imperialism, History, Modern, Palgrave History Collection, Modern History, History of Britain and Ireland, Great Britain—History, Imperialism and Colonialism, History of Military, South Asia (Indian sub-continent), History of South Asia, Asia—History