Table of Contents

Introduction
1. The transformation of the British and Indian Armies in the Rebellion of 1857
2. ‘Side by side in generous rivalry’: Highlanders, Sikhs and Gurkhas in the Rebellion
3. A ‘question on which the safety of the Empire depends’: the European threat, recruiting, and the development of martial race ideology after 1870
4. ‘A power which a man should try to manage for himself’: military influence and martial race discourse in British popular culture
5. Martial races: the Inter-imperial uses of a racially gendered language
6. Representation versus experience: life as a martial race soldier
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Heather Streets is Assistant Professor of British and British Imperial History at Washington State University

Reviews

An excellent book, lucid and fluent throughout. An impressive contribution to the history of military thought and an original addition to imperial studiesA" David Omissi, University of Hull