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.

Autorentext

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

Inhalt

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