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

2011. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-230-11693-1
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 211 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

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."

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sramek, J.

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

Über Autor(innen)

JOSEPH SRAMEK is an Assistant Professor of History at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA.