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Faithful fighters : identity and power in the British Indian Army / Kate Imy.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, (c)2019.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781503610750
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • UA668 .F358 2019
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Contents:
Borders, boundaries, and belonging -- Purifying the soldier -- The government's salt from fast to famine -- A nation at odds with nationalism -- Martial masculinity in the fascist utopia.
Subject: As anti-colonial activism and global war intensified in the twentieth century, the Hindu, Muslim, Christian and Sikh soldiers of the British Indian Army wrestled with the moral dilemma of giving their devotion to either nationalism or imperialism.
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Spiritual swords and martial violence -- Borders, boundaries, and belonging -- Purifying the soldier -- The government's salt from fast to famine -- A nation at odds with nationalism -- Martial masculinity in the fascist utopia.

As anti-colonial activism and global war intensified in the twentieth century, the Hindu, Muslim, Christian and Sikh soldiers of the British Indian Army wrestled with the moral dilemma of giving their devotion to either nationalism or imperialism.

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