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Gender and violence in British India = the road to Amritsar, 1914-1919 /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Gender and violence in British India/ Robert McLain.
Reminder of title:	the road to Amritsar, 1914-1919 /
Author:	McLain, Robert.
Published:	Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2014.,
Description:	184 p. :4 b&w, ill. :
Notes:	Electronic book text.
Subject:	British & Irish history - 20th century -
Online resource:	Online journal 'available contents' page
ISBN:	1137448547 (electronic bk.) :

Gender and violence in British India = the road to Amritsar, 1914-1919 /
McLain, Robert.

Gender and violence in British Indiathe road to Amritsar, 1914-1919 /[electronic resource] :Robert McLain. - 1st ed. - Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan,2014. - 184 p. :4 b&w, ill.

Electronic book text.

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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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.By the outbreak of the Great War, conventional wisdom in the British Empire held that the Briton alone possessed the 'manly' traits of logic and self-control necessary for good governance. Coupled with this was the belief that India's western-educated nationalist elite suffered from a crippling effeminacy of body and mind that precluded political power and independence. During the First World War, however, the colony sent over one million troops abroad to fight, fundamentally upsetting this symmetry and allowing Indian nationalists to challenge the tenets of colonial masculinity. What had been a moment of imperial unity in 1914 deteriorated into an increasingly bitter dispute over the relationship between 'native' effeminacy and India's postwar fitness for self-rule. In this groundbreaking, carefully argued study, author Robert McLain demonstrates that this dispute assumed a rhetorical ferocity that culminated in the actual physical violence of the Amritsar Massacre of 1919, when British led troops shot hundreds of unarmed Indian civilians. In this way, the Empire's reliance on gender as an ideological apparatus was deeply interwoven with the use of violence as an inherent and persistent feature of imperial power.

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

ISBN: 1137448547 (electronic bk.) :£66.00Subjects--Topical Terms:

1009555
British & Irish history
--20th century

LC Class. No.: DS480.4 / .M35 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 940.3/54

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