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Author Imy, Kate, 1987- author.

Title Faithful fighters : identity and power in the British Indian Army / Kate Imy
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 307 pages)
Series South Asia in motion
South Asia in motion.
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 18, 2019)
Subject Great Britain. Army. British Indian Army -- History -- 20th century
SUBJECT Great Britain. Army. British Indian Army fast
Subject Soldiers -- India -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Identification (Religion) -- History -- 20th century
Religion and state -- India -- History -- 20th century
Nationalism -- India -- History -- 20th century
Identification (Religion)
Nationalism
Religion and state
Soldiers -- Social conditions
SUBJECT India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064915
Subject India
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019981259
ISBN 9781503610750
1503610756