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

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