Gender, Morality, and Race in Company India, 1765-1858

Informationen zum Autor JOSEPH SRAMEK is an Assistant Professor of History at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA.  Klappentext 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." Zusammenfassung 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." Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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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

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• Authors: J Sramek, J. Sramek, Joseph Sramek, SRAMEK JOSEPH
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.09.2011
• EAN: 9780230116931
• ISBN: 978-0-230-11693-1
• No. of pages: 265
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; B, Cultural History, European History, Social History, Social & cultural history, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism, Asian History, imperialism, Civilization—History, Palgrave History Collection, History of Britain and Ireland, Great Britain—History, Imperialism and Colonialism, South Asia (Indian sub-continent), History of South Asia, Asia—History, British rule;East India Company;ideology;India