Gender and Violence in British India [electronic resource] : The Road to Amritsar, 1914-1919 /
McLain, R.author.
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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Cover; Gender and Violence in British India; Contents; List of Figures; 1: Resituating Gender and Violence during the Great War; Excavating Masculinity and Femininity in the Prewar Empire; 2: The Violent Mahatma: Gandhi and the Rehabilitation of Indian Manhood; Wartime Emasculation and Imperial Consensus; The Great War, Indian Nationalism, and the Regeneration of Masculinity; Gandhi and the Forms of Colonial Violence; Premonitions of the Future: The British Press and Indian Loyalty; 3: Measures of Manliness: The Martial Races and the Wartime Politics of Effeminacy
Our Soldiers, Ourselves: Constructing the Martial RacesThe Wartime Politics of Martiality; The Transnational Politics of the Martial Races; The Martial Races and the Intersection of Global Revolutionary Movements; 4: Frontline Masculinity: The Indian Corps on the Western Front, 1914-1915; The First Two Months: Martial Races, British Officers, and Self-Inflicted Wounds; Neuve Chapelle and the Official History of the War; 5: The Road to Amritsar; "Tophat Or Turban": Reform Opposition in the Imperial Press; The Sinews of Empire: The Indo-British Association in London
Reform, Rape, and the Amritsar Massacre6: Epilogue: The Historical Stakes of New Imperial History; Notes; 1 Resituating Gender and Violence during the Great War; 2 The Violent Mahatma: Gandhi and the Rehabilitationof Indian Manhood; 3 Measures of Manliness: The Martial Races and the Wartime Politics of Effeminacy; 4 Frontline Masculinity: The Indian Corps on the Western Front, 1914-1915; 5 The Road to Amritsar; 6 Epilogue: The Historical Stakes of New Imperial History; Select Bibliography; Primary Sources; India Office Manuscripts; Diaries, Letters; War Office Files; Parliamentary Papers
BooksHandbooks for the Indian Army; Great War Era Periodicals; Newspapers; Secondary Sources; Books and Articles from Edited Volumes; Journal Articles; Miscellaneous Sources; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Asia-History.
Imperialism.
Military history.
Great Britain-History.
History, Modern.
Asian History.
Imperialism and Colonialism.
History of Military.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Modern History.
History of South Asia.