Gender and Violence in British India
The Road to Amritsar, 1914-1919| By: | R. McLain |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
| Print ISBN: | 9781137448538 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781137448545 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2014 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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.