Performing anti‐colonial military identities in the Rani of Jhansi Regiment, 1943–1945: War, diasporic women and decolonisation.
The processes by which diasporic colonised Indian women were constituted as anti‐colonial military subjects offer a valuable corrective to the neglected role of colonised women in the scholarship on decolonisation and war. This article addresses how female officers of the Rani of Jhansi Regiment sta...
| Publicado en: | Gender & History Vol. 36; no. 2; pp. 602 - 620 |
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