J. Sramek

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

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-29766-5
• 1st ed. 2011
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781349297665
• ISBN-10: 1349297666
• Artikelnr.: 45081320

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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