The torchbearers of progress : youth, volunteer organisations and national discipline in India, c. 1918-1947

The thesis deals with volunteer bodies in India from the end of the Great War to c.1947. It examines the genealogy of these bodies as a projection surface for ideal citizenship, a space to experimentally put those ideas into practice and as site of a mobilisational drive ‘from below’ rendering these...

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Main Author: Roy, Fanziska
Published: University of Warwick 2013
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.675361