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

McLain, R.

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2014-08-20

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349496501

DOI: 10.1057/9781137448545

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 170