The Amritsar Massacre: British views of Indian nationalism, 2019
The Amritsar Massacre is considered one of the blackest days in British colonial history, highlig... more The Amritsar Massacre is considered one of the blackest days in British colonial history, highlighting the brutality and racial subordination enforced by the British governance of India. This thesis aims to understand Indian Nationalism from a British perspective by looking at the British reaction to the Amritsar Massacre. In furthering how the British saw Indian Nationalism, it intends to fill the gap in current historiography about understanding why the British carried out such brutality alongside subjugating legislation. In order to comprehend British perspectives of nationalism, this thesis makes use of the British Library Indian Office Records, the National Archives, Parliamentary Archives, Hansard Online and both ProQuest Historical Newspapers and Gale Primary Sources. Overall, this thesis will conclude by stating that the British public viewed the Indian peoples as a race inferior to their own. This will be shown through highlighting the use of semantics indicating racial subordination and animalistic dehumanisation giving reasoning to British totalitarian governance which stoked nationalist thinking amongst Indians.
The Amritsar Massacre: British views of Indian nationalism, 2019
The Amritsar Massacre is considered one of the blackest days in British colonial history, highlig... more The Amritsar Massacre is considered one of the blackest days in British colonial history, highlighting the brutality and racial subordination enforced by the British governance of India. This thesis aims to understand Indian Nationalism from a British perspective by looking at the British reaction to the Amritsar Massacre. In furthering how the British saw Indian Nationalism, it intends to fill the gap in current historiography about understanding why the British carried out such brutality alongside subjugating legislation. In order to comprehend British perspectives of nationalism, this thesis makes use of the British Library Indian Office Records, the National Archives, Parliamentary Archives, Hansard Online and both ProQuest Historical Newspapers and Gale Primary Sources. Overall, this thesis will conclude by stating that the British public viewed the Indian peoples as a race inferior to their own. This will be shown through highlighting the use of semantics indicating racial subordination and animalistic dehumanisation giving reasoning to British totalitarian governance which stoked nationalist thinking amongst Indians.
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