Martial races

Martial racesAuthor: Heather Streets ISBN: 9780719069635 Publisher: Manchester University Press Year first published: 01 Nov 2010 Pages: 256 Format: Paperback softback This book explores how and why Scottish Highlanders, Punjabi Sikhs, and Nepalese Gurkhas became identified as the British Empire's fiercest, most manly soldiers in nineteenth century discourse. As 'martial races' these men were believed to possess a biological or cultural disposition to the racial

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