Faithful Fighters with Professor Kate Imy

Hi, I’m Sukhraj Singh from Sikh Archive and welcome to the thirteenth episode of our Podcast series of conversations with historians, authors, academics, journalists and activists on topics related to their areas of expertise on Sikh or Panjabi history.

In this episode we are joined by Professor Kate Imy from the University of North Texas, where she is a historian of war and empire teaching classes on questions of identity (race, gender, class, religion) in the twentieth-century British imperial world. 

Today we will be discussing her book, “Faithful Fighters” which explores the racial and religious inclusivity of Indians in the British Empire against the backdrop of anti-colonial activism.

We explore the infamous construction of the martial race and how a military culture created unintended dialogues between soldiers and civilians and how this contributed to creating lasting legacies for the violent partition and independence of India, and the endemic warfare and violence of the post-colonial world.

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