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

Published Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2014] ©2014

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 221 pages) : illustrations Contents Preface : the 8,000 mile screwdriver -- Introduction : empire's corporate culture -- Corruption and the corporation : the impeachment of Warren Hastings -- How the Civil Service got its name : India as a noble 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-212) and index Notes Print version record Subject East India Company -- History SUBJECT East India Company fast Subject Corporate culture -- Great Britain -- History Corporate culture -- India -- History HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia. HISTORY -- General. British occupation Civilization -- British influences Corporate culture Politics and government SUBJECT India -- Politics and government -- 1765-1947. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064939 India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064915 India -- Civilization -- British influences. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89004339 Subject Great Britain India Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781442617018 1442617012

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