Download or read book Gender and Violence in British India written by R. McLain and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-20 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In British India, the years during and following World War I saw imperial unity deteriorate into a bitter dispute over "native" effeminacy and India's postwar fitness for self-rule. This study demonstrates that increasingly ferocious dispute culminated in the actual physical violence of the Amritsar Massacre of 1919.