This book examines the relationship between colonial anxieties about personalbehavior, gender, morality, and colonial rule in India during the first century of British rule, when the East India Company governed India rather than theBritish State directly, focusing on the ideology of 'The Empire of Opinion.' JOSEPH SRAMEK is an Assistant Professor of History at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA. INDICE: 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
- ISBN: 978-0-230-11693-1
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 266
- Fecha Publicación: 08/09/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés