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)