Gender and Violence in British India The Road to Amritsar, 1914-1919 [Hardcover]

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 1919.1. 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

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