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Gender and Violence in British India

The Road to Amritsar, 1914-1919

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  • © 2014

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  1. Robert McLain
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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Resituating Gender and Violence during the Great War

    • Robert McLain
    Pages 1-16

  3. The Violent Mahatma: Gandhi and the Rehabilitation of Indian Manhood

    • Robert McLain
    Pages 17-40

  4. Measures of Manliness: The Martial Races and the Wartime Politics of Effeminacy

    • Robert McLain
    Pages 41-60

  5. Frontline Masculinity: The Indian Corps on the Western Front, 1914–1915

    • Robert McLain
    Pages 61-88

  6. The Road to Amritsar

    • Robert McLain
    Pages 89-117

  7. Epilogue: The Historical Stakes of New Imperial History

    • Robert McLain
    Pages 119-123

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 125-170
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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.

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

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