Muscular Nationalism: Gender, Violence, and Empire in India and Ireland, 1914-2004

Index

• 199 Abortion, ban on, 154–55 Abscondence, 104 Act of Union (1800), 42 Acton, Lord, 35 Advaita Vedanta, 57 Afghanistan, 6 Agni (god of fire), 148 Agnipariksha (trial by fire), 148 Ahern, Bertie, 155–56, 159–60 Ahimsa (nonviolence), 8 Ahmedabad riots, 135 All India Women’s Conference, 70, 93 Amritsar, 24 Anandamath (Chatterjee, B.), 60–61, 65 Anarchy, 31 Anderson, Linda, 1–2, 7 Anderson, Sir John, 23 Anglo-Irish Treaty (1922), 169n3 Anglo-Saxon race, 28–29, 30–31, 38 Annihilation, 112, 115, 117 Anushilan Samiti (revolutionary group), 17, 57, 67; terrorism and, 55, 99–100 Anzaldua, Gloria, 11–12 Apurba (fictional character), 65–67, 103 Armagh dirty protest (1980, Northern Ireland), 10, 13, 18, 106, 126–30 Armed femininity, 61, 80, 99–105 Armed masculinity, 4, 10, 50, 112, 134, 137 Arnold, Matthew, 31–32 Artexga, Begona, 12 Asceticism, 59, 61, 63, 140 Atkinson, George Francklin, 40 Australian nationalism, 5 Baartman, Sarah, 160 Babu, Bengali, 15, 32–34, 67 Bajrang Dal, 135–36 Bandemataram (nationalist paper), 67–68, 70, 112 Bandyopadhayay, Krishna, 18, 114–17, 130–31 Bangabashi (daily), 96 Bartlett, Thomas, 36 Battle of Gallipoli (1915), 5 Bean na hEireann (IE newspaper), 70, 71–72, 78–80 Beautiful soul, 8, 146, 166 Beddoe, John, 31, 36 Belfast Agreement, 159 Bengal: Vivekananda, muscular nationalism and, 55–57; Wadedar and armed femininity in, 99–105. See also Naxal movement Bengalee (newspaper), 39 Bengalis: Bengali babu, 15, 32–34, 67; weak, 32–36 The Bengali (nationalist daily), 56 Benton, Sarah, 87 Besant, Annie, 93 Bharati (fictional character), 66–67, 68, 103 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), 134, 143– 46, 181n14 Bharatmata (Mother India), 68 Bharat Stree Mahamondal (women’s organization), 98–99 Bhatt, Haraeshbhai, 135 bin Laden, Osama, 6 Birashtami festivals, 96 index 200 • Index Bjorkert-Thapar, Suruchi, 12 BJP. See Bharatiya Janata Party Black and Tans, 37, 81 Black female body, 18, 133, 155, 160–62 Blackness, 153, 160–61, 183n72 “Black Troops in Europe” (The Irish Citizen), 72–73 Blair, Tony, 107 Blood sacrifice, 67–68, 85, 112–13 Bloody Sunday, 123 Boer War, 29, 49 Boland’s Mill, 86 Border guards, women as, 7–8, 10, 13– 15, 17–19, 24–26, 40–43, 64, 136 Bose, Babu Bhuggobutty (fictional character), 33–34 Bose, Purnima, 13, 24, 100 Boy’s Scouts, 29, 49, 51. See also Na Fianna Eireann “The Boys of Ireland” (The Irish Freedom), 49 Breen, Dan, 71 Bridie, Aunt, 85 Britannia, 31, 32–33 British policy toward Ireland and India, 12–16 Brookes, John, 21, 28 Bunch of Thoughts (Golwalkar), 138 Butler, Mary E., 76 “Buy a Revolver Speech” (Markievicz), 89 Caird, John, 27 Calcutta Review, 27 Callaghan, Rosemary, 127 Cama, Madam, 70 Camogie (Irish sport), 157 Carby, Hazel, 151–52, 160 Carney, Winifred, 121 Castes, 14, 111, 134, 145–46; Rajput, 134, 146–48, 150–51, 161–62, 166 Catholicism, muscular, 16–17, 46 CB. See Cumann na mBan Celibacy, 62–63, 87, 140, 143 Celts: Anglo-Saxons and, 30–31, 38; simianized, 30–32 Chaste femininity, 7–12; Mosse on, 11; Pearse, P., on, 52–53; tension between politicized femininity and, 18–19 Chaste woman: as boundary between Self and Other, 24; martial man versus, 7, 9, 17, 75, 105, 125, 130, 165, 167 Chatterjee, Bankimchandra, 55, 67; Anandamath, 60–61, 65; on sati ritual, 148–49 Chatterjee, Kamaladebi, 93 Chatterjee, Saratchandra, 64–67, 103 Chaudharani, Saraladebi, 17, 75, 92, 93; “Foreign Blows versus Native Fists,” 95; life of, 94–99 Chaudhury, Rambhuja Datta, 94 Children’s Patriotic Treat, 78–79 Chirol, Valentine, 69 Chittagong raid, 100, 101 Chonaill, Aine Ni, 160 Choudhury, Suniti, 100, 103, 105 Chowdhury, R. C., 95 Christianity, muscular, 16, 26, 28, 60 Christian manliness, 26–30, 86 “Christian Manliness: A Book of Examples and Principles for Young Men” (Religious Tract Society of London), 26–27 Christian Manliness: A Sermon (Caird), 27 Civil Authorities Act (1922), 122 “The Civilizing of India” (The Irish Freedom), 69 Class and effeminacy, 28–29 “The Colonel’s Wife” (Atkinson), 40 Colonialism: imperialism and, 14; Index • 201 legitimacy of, 24–25; marriage as metaphor for, 42–43; race and, 25– 26; whiteness and colonized Other, 36–39; Wright on, 14, 42 Colum, Mary, 82 Columbia Exposition, 60 Comerford, Maire, 83–84 “The Coming Revolution” (Pearse, P.), 49–50 Communist Party of India–Marxist Leninist (CPI-ML), 108, 110, 111, 113 The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook (Steel), 41 Connaught Rangers, 36...