Ebook: Martial races: The military, race and masculinity in British imperial culture, 1857–1914

This book provides an exploration of how and why Scottish Highlanders, Punjabi Sikhs and Nepalese Gurkhas became linked as the British Empire’s fiercest, most manly soldiers in nineteenth century discourses of ‘martial races'. A phenomenon that had important social and political effects in India, in Britain, and in the armies of the Empire.