Main entry:

Kent, Eddy, 1978- author.

Title & Author:

Corporate character : representing imperial power in British India, 1786-1901 / Eddy Kent.

Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2014]
©2014

Description:

xiv, 221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-212) and index.
Introduction : empire's corporate culture -- Corruption and the corporation : the impeachment of Warren Hastings -- How the Civil Service got its name : India as a nobel profession -- Representing working conditions in Company India -- Corporate culture in post-Company India -- Unmaking a company man in Rudyard Kipling's Kim -- Conclusion : out of India.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"The vastness of Britain's nineteenth-century empire and the gap between imperial policy and colonial practice demanded an institutional culture that encouraged British administrators to identify the interests of imperial service as their own. In Corporate Character, Eddy Kent examines novels, short stories, poems, essays, memoirs, private correspondence, and parliamentary speeches related to the East India Company and its effective successor, the Indian Civil Service, to explain the origins of this imperial ethos of "virtuous service." Exploring the appointment, training, and management of Britain's overseas agents alongside the writing of public intellectuals such as Edmund Burke, Thomas Malthus, Thomas Babington Macaulay, and J.S. Mill, Kent explains the origins of the discourse of "virtuous empire" as an example of corporate culture and explores its culmination in Anglo-Indian literature like Rudyard Kipling's Kim. Challenging narratives of British imperialism that focus exclusively on race or nation, Kent's book is the first to study how corporate ways of thinking and feeling influenced British imperial life."-- From publisher's website.

ISBN:

9781442648463 (bound)
1442648465 (bound)

Subject:

East India Company History.
East India Company Histoire 19e siècle.
East India Company.
East India Company London
Indian Administrative Service
Corporate culture Great Britain History.
Corporate culture India History.
Business enterprises India History 19th century.
Corporate culture Great Britain History 19th century.
Entreprises Inde Histoire 19e siècle.
Culture d'entreprise Inde Histoire 19e siècle.
Culture d'entreprise Grande-Bretagne Histoire 19e siècle.
Britanniques Inde Histoire 19e siècle.
Culture d'entreprise Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
Culture d'entreprise Inde Histoire.
Colonies Administration
Business enterprises
British colonies
Civilization British influences.
Corporate culture.
Politics and government
Besetzung
Organisationskultur
Kolonialismus
Brittiska ockupationen av Indien 1765-1947.
Företagskultur historia.
India Politics and government 1765-1947.
India History British occupation, 1765-1947.
India Civilization British influences.
Great Britain Colonies Administration History 19th century.
Indien.
Grande-Bretagne Colonies Administration Histoire 19e siècle.
Inde Civilisation Influence britannique.
Inde Histoire 1765-1947 (Occupation britannique)
Inde Politique et gouvernement 1765-1947.
Great Britain.
India.
Großbritannien
Britisch-Indien
Storbritannien.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 290069
Call No.: DS475 .K45 2014
Status: Available