Gender, morality, and race in Company India, 1765-1858

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    • Sramek, Joseph

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Gender, morality, and race in Company India, 1765-1858

Joseph Sramek

Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-232) and index

Summary: "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 betwe

収録内容

  • 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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内容説明

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."

目次

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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