Congressional Record
Author : United States. Congress
Publisher :
Page : 1324 pages
File Size : 35,43 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Law
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Author : United States. Congress
Publisher :
Page : 1324 pages
File Size : 35,43 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Law
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Author : India. Legislature. Legislative Assembly
Publisher :
Page : 952 pages
File Size : 16,61 MB
Release : 1934
Category : India
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 14,85 MB
Release : 1933
Category : India
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Author : India. Legislature. Legislative Assembly
Publisher :
Page : 1010 pages
File Size : 19,75 MB
Release : 1936
Category : India
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Author : New Zealand. Parliament
Publisher :
Page : 1424 pages
File Size : 33,73 MB
Release : 1933
Category : New Zealand
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Author : Canada. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher :
Page : 2072 pages
File Size : 45,2 MB
Release : 1893
Category : Canada
ISBN :
Author : United States
Publisher :
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 32,48 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Banking law
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Author : Canada. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher :
Page : 1872 pages
File Size : 16,90 MB
Release : 1893
Category : Canada
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Author : New Zealand. Parliament
Publisher :
Page : 1420 pages
File Size : 17,67 MB
Release : 1933
Category : New Zealand
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Author : Kate Imy
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 44,83 MB
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : 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.