... martial race Sanatan dharam Sikhism Singh Sabha Tat Khalsa In recent years a key debate in Sikh Studies has emerged concerning the way in which British colonialism in India served to redefine the nature of Sikh tradition. The historiography of this debate has largely focused...

... and militarism as operating concepts by showing how Gurkhas in particular draw upon their colonial pasts, as martial race warriors, to perform as security contractors in the present and how clients view their value through similar colonial histories. affect Afghanistan Åhäll Linda embodied nature of work...

...This chapter provides the historical context of the colonial logic, martial race. It explores how martial race histories come to matter in producing Gurkhas as racialised soldiers – valued for their martial prowess, their unfettered loyalty and, at times, their childlike and playful nature...

...Medical facilities for Indian soldiers are used here to examine the failure of the colonial state to provide medical care for its Indian employees. The ethnicity of ‘martial race’ troops was central to the construction of the Indian male patients in army hospitals. Army authorities resisted...

.... It also shows the shifts in the theory and practice of recruitment that enabled the colonial Indian Army to wage “Total War” instead of merely small wars. The chapter recounts how the Raj updated the martial race theory and replaced the regimental recruitment system with territorial or area recruitment...

... and security companies PMSCs martial race TCNs postcolonial We are known [as] the Gurkhas all over the world . . . People understand [the Gurkha] as loyal, honest, honorable, and disciplined. The Gurkhas are very well mannered, very good person[s]‌, very energetic. Whatever instructions come down from...

...In terms of size, the Indian Army was much larger than its two sister services: the Royal Indian Navy and the Royal Indian Air Force. Besides ideological (martial race theory), several non-ideological factors such as the capacity of the military organization to house, feed, clothe, train, and equip...