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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.