Preface: The 8,000 Mile Screwdriver -- Introduction: Empire's Corporate Culture -- 1. Corruption and the Corporation: The Impeachment of Warren Hastings -- 2. How the Civil Service Got its Name: India as a Noble Profession -- 3. Representing Working Conditions in Company India -- 4. Corporate Culture in Post-Company India -- 5. Unmaking a Company Man: Rudyard Kipling's Kim -- Conclusion: Out of India
Summary
Eddy Kent examines novels, short stories, poems, essays, memoirs, private correspondence, and parliamentary speeches related to the East India Company and the Indian Civil Service to explain the origins of the imperial ethos of "virtuous service."
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-212) and index
