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."

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

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Book Title: Gender, Morality, and Race in Company India, 1765-1858
Authors: Joseph Sramek
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230337626
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-11693-1Published: 08 September 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-29766-5Published: 08 September 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-33762-6Published: 12 September 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 250
Topics: Asian History, Cultural History, History of Britain and Ireland, Imperialism and Colonialism, Social History, History of South Asia

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

Colonial Beginnings, ca. 1600–1793

Trying to Rule India without Indians, 1793–1831

Honor, Racial Prestige, and Gentleman Sepoys, 1757–ca. 1830

“If the Natives Were Competent, From Their Moral Qualities”: Race, Paternalism, and Partial Indianization, 1813–57

Martial Races, Caste-Ridden Sepoys, and British Fears about Losing Control: Britons and Their Sepoy Armies in Late Company India

Conclusion

Back Matter

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