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010			_a 2014009570
020			_a9781349960026 (hbk)
020			_a9781137448538 (hardback : alkaline paper)
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082	0	0	_a940.354 _223 _bMCL
100	1		_aMcLain, Robert. _eauthor _920138
245	1	0	_aGender and violence in British India : _bthe road to Amritsar, 1914-1919 / _cby Robert McLain.
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260			_aNew York, NY : _bPalgrave Macmillan, _c2020.
300			_a170 p. ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
365			_b1895.00 _cRupees
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 151-164) and index
505	0		_aResituating gender and violence during the Great War -- The violent Mahatma : Gandhi and the rehabilitation of Indian manhood -- Measures of manliness : the martial races and the wartime politics of effeminacy -- Frontline masculinity : the Indian Corps on the Western Front, 1914-1915 -- The road to Amritsar -- Epilogue : The historical stakes of new imperial history.
520	2		_a"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"--Provided by publisher.
650		0	_aWorld War, 1914-1918 _xSocial aspects _zIndia. _920139
650		0	_aAmritsar Massacre, Amritsar, India, 1919. _920140
650		0	_aMasculinity _xPolitical aspects _zIndia _xHistory _y20th century. _920141
650		0	_aViolence _zIndia _xHistory _y20th century. _920142
650		0	_aImperialism _xSocial aspects _zIndia _xHistory _y20th century. _920143
651		0	_aIndia _xPolitics and government _y1857-1919. _920144
651		0	_aGreat Britain _xRelations _zIndia. _920145
651		0	_aIndia _xRelations _zGreat Britain. _920146
651		0	_aIndia _xHistory _xAutonomy and independence movements. _920147
651		0	_aIndia _xSocial conditions _y20th century. _920148
653			_aWorld War, 1914-1918 -- Social aspects -- India. _aIndia -- Politics and government -- 1857-1919. _aAmritsar Massacre, Amritsar, India, 1919.
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