Gender, Morality, and Race in Company India, 1765-1858 [electronic resource] /
Sramek, J.author.
This book examines the relationship between colonial anxieties about personal behavior, gender, morality, and colonial rule in India during the first century of British rule, when the East India Company governed India rather than the British State directly, focusing on the ideology of "The Empire of Opinion.".
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Colonial beginnings, ca. 1600-1793 -- Trying to rule India without Indians, 1793-1831 -- Honor, racial prestige, and gentlemen sepoys, 1757-ca. 1830 -- "If the natives were competent, from their moral qualities" : race, paternalism, and partial indianization, 1813-1857 -- Martial races, caste-ridden sepoys, and British fears of losing control : the British and their Indian armies in late Company India.
This book examines the relationship between colonial anxieties about personal behavior, gender, morality, and colonial rule in India during the first century of British rule, when the East India Company governed India rather than the British State directly, focusing on the ideology of "The Empire of Opinion.".
East India Company
Asia—History.
Civilization—History.
Great Britain—History.
Imperialism.
Social history.
Asian History.
Cultural History.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Imperialism and Colonialism.
Social History.
History of South Asia.