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Description

1. xiii, 250 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

1. "Between 1765 and 1858, British imperialists in India obsessed continuously about gaining and preserving Indian "opinion" of British moral and racial prestige. Weaving political, intellectual, cultural, and gender history together in an innovative approach, Gender, morality, and race in Company India, 1765-1858 examines imperial anxieties regarding British moral misconduct in India ranging from debt and gift giving to drunkenness and irreligion and points out their wider relationship to the structuring of British colonialism. Showing a pervasive fear among imperial elites of losing "mastery" over India, as well as a deep distrust of Indian civil and military subordinates through whom they ruled, Sramek demonstrates how much of the British Raj's notable racial arrogance after 1858 can in fact be traced back into the preceding Company period of colonial rule. Rather than the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857 ushering in a more racist form of colonialism, this book powerfully suggests far greater continuity between the two periods of colonial rule than scholars have hitherto generally recognized"--

Subject

1. British > India > Public opinion > History > 19th century
2. India > Moral conditions
3. HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century
4. India > Race relations
5. East India Company History
6. Imperialism > Social aspects > India > History
7. Masculinity > Social aspects > India > History
8. HISTORY / Social History
9. India > Politics and government > 1765-1947
10. HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century
11. Colonial administrators > India > History
12. British > India > History > 19th century
13. British > India > History > 18th century
14. HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
15. HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia

Contents

1. 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.

Call number

1. JFD 11-3214

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Sramek, Joseph, 1976-

Title

1. Gender, morality, and race in Company India, 1765-1858 / Joseph Sramek.

Imprint

1. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Edition

1. 1st ed.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

LCCN

1. 2011008507

ISBN

1. 9780230116931 (hardback : alk. paper)
2. 0230116930 (hardback : alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JFD 11-3214