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9780719069635

Martial Races The Military, Race and Masculinity in British Imperial Culture, 1857-1914

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    9780719069635

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    0719069637

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2010-11-01
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Summary

This book explores how and why Scottish Highlanders, Punjabi Sikhs, and Nepalese Gurkhas became identified as the British Empire's fiercest, most manly 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 Biography

Heather Streets is Assistant Professor of British Imperial History at Washington State University

Table of Contents

General editor's introductionp. viii
Acknowledgementsp. x
Introductionp. 1
The transformation of the British and Indian armies in the Rebellion of 1857p. 18
Highlanders, Sikhs and Gurkhas in the Rebellionp. 52
The European threat, recruiting, and the development of martial race ideology after 1870p. 87
Military influence and martial race discourse in British popular culturep. 116
Martial races: the inter-imperial uses of a racially gendered languagep. 156
Representation versus experience: life as a 'martial race' soldierp. 190
Conclusionp. 225
Select bibliographyp. 229
Indexp. 236
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