Militarized Masculinities: Shaped and Reshaped in Colonial South-East Punjab
Militarized Masculinities: Shaped and Reshaped in Colonial South-East Punjab
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DOI：
10.1017/s0026749x11000539
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发表时间：
2013-05-01
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0.9
通讯作者：
Chowdhry, Prem
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作者：
Chowdhry, Prem
本文提供了一个性别视角，英国在印度的统治，通过英属印度军队，这在许多方面是他们在印度的整个经济和政治统治结构的核心。它从旁遮普东南部的政治经济学中找到了自己的理解，认为指定的军事种姓和军事招募在结构上和意识形态上与该地区现有的男性化趋势相一致，并享有特权，这适合他们的权力结构和帝国建设。在殖民地旁遮普，婚姻种姓地位、土地所有权、优势种姓综合症和良好的体格或体力在意识形态上连接并构成了占主导地位的男性气质。在两次世界大战期间，它以军事化的男子气概出现，并得到法律的和行政措施的充分支持，这些措施是为了尊重某些流行的文化习俗而采取的。相关的经济和政治特权把“忠诚”变成了民族主义者必须面对和处理的“男子气概”的固有和特殊成分，直到它与民族主义和爱国主义牢固地联系在一起。
This paper offers a gendered perspective to British domination in India through the British Indian Army-which in many ways was central to their entire structure of economic and political domination in India. Locating its understanding drawn from the political economy of south-east Punjab, it argues that the designated martial castes and military recruitment structurally and ideologically identified with and privileged those trends of existing masculinities in this region which suited their power structure and empire building. It was a constellation of marital caste status, land ownership, dominant caste syndrome and good bodily physique or physical strength that ideologically came to connect and configure dominant masculinity in colonial Punjab. An Army profession fully supported it. During the two world wars it emerged as the militarized masculinity, amply supported by legal and administrative measures introduced or apparently adopted in deference to certain popular cultural practices. The associated economic and political privileges turned 'loyalty' into an inherent and special ingredient of 'masculinity' which the nationalists had to confront and deal with till such times that it came to be firmly linked with nationalism and patriotism.