The Martial Races of India
Author | : George Fletcher MacMunn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Caste |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : George Fletcher MacMunn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Caste |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Heather Streets |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780719069628 |
This book explores how and why Scottish Highlanders, Punjabi Sikhs, and Nepalese Gurkhas became identified as the British Empire's fiercest soldiers in nineteenth century discourse. As "martial races" these men were believed to possess a biological or cultural disposition to the racial and masculine qualities necessary for the arts of war. Because of this, they were used as icons to promote recruitment in British and Indian armies--a phenomenon with important social and political effects in India, in Britain, and in the armies of the Empire.
Author | : Vidya Prakash Tyagi |
Publisher | : Gyan Publishing House |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Caste |
ISBN | : 9788178357751 |
Author | : Kate Imy |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2019-12-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1503610756 |
During the first four decades of the twentieth century, the British Indian Army possessed an illusion of racial and religious inclusivity. The army recruited diverse soldiers, known as the "Martial Races," including British Christians, Hindustani Muslims, Punjabi Sikhs, Hindu Rajputs, Pathans from northwestern India, and "Gurkhas" from Nepal. As anti-colonial activism intensified, military officials incorporated some soldiers' religious traditions into the army to keep them disciplined and loyal. They facilitated acts such as the fast of Ramadan for Muslim soldiers and allowed religious swords among Sikhs to recruit men from communities where anti-colonial sentiment grew stronger. Consequently, Indian nationalists and anti-colonial activists charged the army with fomenting racial and religious divisions. In Faithful Fighters, Kate Imy explores how military culture created unintended dialogues between soldiers and civilians, including Hindu nationalists, Sikh revivalists, and pan-Islamic activists. By the 1920s and '30s, the army constructed military schools and academies to isolate soldiers from anti-colonial activism. While this carefully managed military segregation crumbled under the pressure of the Second World War, Imy argues that the army militarized racial and religious difference, creating lasting legacies for the violent partition and independence of India, and the endemic warfare and violence of the post-colonial world.
Author | : Tarak Barkawi |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2017-06-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107169585 |
Barkawi re-imagines the study of war with imperial and multinational armies that fought in Asia in the Second World War.
Author | : Chandar S. Sundaram |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2019-04-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1498579523 |
**Short-listed for the Society for Army Historical Research UK's Templer Medal Best First Book Prize, 2020** In the Indian Army of the British Raj, the officer corps was “reserved for the governing race”— in other words, the British. Only in 1917, a mere thirty years before India won its freedom, did the Raj permit Indians into the Army’s officer corps, thus slowly beginning its Indianization. Yet it is often forgotten that this decision was the culmination of a hundred-year-long debate. Based on meticulous archival research in Britain and India, Indianization, the Officer Corps, and the Indian Army breaks new ground by offering readers the first detailed account of this generally forgotten debate. It traces the myriad schemes and counter-schemes the debate generated, the complex twists and turns it took, and how it engaged both British policymakers anxious to maintain control as well as nationalist Indian leaders agitating for greater self-government. This work also offers insights into the martial races concept, the 1857 uprising, and the impact of Anglo-Indian ideology upon the Indian Army. Clearly written and carefully argued, it is an original and defining contribution to military/war and society history, the history of colonial India and its army, the history of British empire, the history of racism, and civil-military relations.
Author | : Santanu Das |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 495 |
Release | : 2018-09-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107081580 |
This is the first cultural and literary history of India and the First World War, with archival research from Europe and South Asia.
Author | : Radhika Singha |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020-12-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0197566901 |
Though largely invisible in histories of the First World War, over??550,000 men in the ranks of the Indian army were non-combatants. From the porters, stevedores and construction workers in the Coolie Corps to those who maintained supply lines and removed the wounded from the battlefield, Radhika Singha recovers the story of this unacknowledged service. The labor regimes built on the backs of these 'coolies' sustained the military infrastructure of empire; their deployment in interregional arenas bent to the demands of global war. Viewed as racially subordinate and subject to 'non-martial' caste designations, they fought back against their status, using the warring powers' need for manpower as leverage to challenge traditional service hierarchies and wage differentials. The Coolie's Great War views that global conflict through the lens of Indian labor, constructing a distinct geography of the war--from tribal settlements and colonial jails, beyond India's frontiers, to the battlefronts of France and Mesopotamia.
Author | : J. Sramek |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-09-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780230116931 |
This book examines the relationship between colonial anxieties about personal behavior, gender, morality, and colonial rule in India during the first century of British rule, when the East India Company governed India rather than the British State directly, focusing on the ideology of "The Empire of Opinion."
Author | : Steven Wilkinson |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2015-02-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674728807 |
Steven I. Wilkinson explores how India has succeeded in keeping the military out of politics, when so many other countries have failed. He uncovers the command and control strategies, the careful ethnic balancing, and the political, foreign policy, and strategic decisions that have made the army safe for Indian democracy.