Gender, Morality, and Race in Company India, 1765-1858 by Joseph Sramek

Author:Joseph Sramek
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

None of these official concerns had much, if anything, to do with ensuring that India was efficiently governed or that the most qualified men were chosen. Rather, as Sinha has shown, the British were primarily driven by an ideological concern to keep out “weak-kneed, effeminate, effete Bengalees.”102 Ultimately, then, the Company’s partial Indianization policies were about far more than administrative necessity or colonial pragmatism. They were also profoundly driven by ideology. They helped establish several themes in British colonial thought about the colonial administration and the proper role of Britons in India that would carry over into the British Raj. Such was also the case with many British attitudes toward Indian soldiers in the Company’s sepoy armies after the 1820s, to which we shall now turn our attention.

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