Skip to main content
Kent Academic Repository

Remilitarising the Connaught Rangers Mutiny

Draper, Mario (2021) Remilitarising the Connaught Rangers Mutiny. In: Atwal, Jyoti and Eunan, O'Halpin, eds. India, Ireland and Anti-Imperial Struggle: Remembering the Connaught Rangers Mutiny, 1920. Aakar, Delhi, India. (KAR id:87306)

PDF Author's Accepted Manuscript
Language: English
Download this file
(PDF/350kB)
[thumbnail of Remilitarising the Connaught Rangers Mutiny AAC.pdf]
Request a format suitable for use with assistive technology e.g. a screenreader
XML Word Processing Document (DOCX) Author's Accepted Manuscript
Language: English

Restricted to Repository staff only
Contact us about this Publication
[thumbnail of Remilitarising the Connaught Rangers Mutiny AAC.docx]

Abstract

This chapter seeks to reassert the military origins of the Connaught Rangers Mutiny in June/July 1920. By placing the mutiny into a longer durée context from 1914-1922, it demonstrates that the breakdown in officer-man relations can be traced back to the unit's peculiar wartime experience as well as the dislocating effects of demobilisation. It argues that the ensuing political narrative was merely a convenient explanation. For the British military authorities, it deflected attention away from post-war institutional failings, while for the mutineers, it provided them with a route into Irish Nationalist consciousness and the potential compensation associated with it.

Item Type: Book section
Uncontrolled keywords: British Army; Officers; First World War; Imperial Commitments; Demobilisation
Subjects: D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D501 World War I (1914-1918)
D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain
D History General and Old World > DS Asia
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of History
Depositing User: Mario Draper
Date Deposited: 24 Mar 2021 16:20 UTC
Last Modified: 01 Jan 2022 00:00 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/87306 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

University of Kent Author Information

  • Depositors only (login required):

Total unique views for this document in KAR since July 2020. For more details click on the image.