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The East India college debate and the fashioning of imperial officials, 1806-1858
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Wilkinson, Callie (2017) The East India college debate and the fashioning of imperial officials, 1806-1858. The Historical Journal, 60 (4). pp. 943-969. doi:10.1017/S0018246X16000492 ISSN 0018-246X.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X16000492
Abstract
Throughout its relatively brief existence, the English East India Company's college in Hertfordshire was hotly debated in Company headquarters, parliament, and the press. These disputes are deeply revealing of contemporary attitudes to the inter-related issues of elite education, government, ‘Britishness’, and empire. Previously, historians interested in the relationship between education and empire have concentrated largely on British attempts to construct colonial subjects, but just as important and just as controversial to contemporaries was the concomitant endeavour to create colonial officials. On a practical level, disputes in educational theory made it difficult to decide on how to train recruits who would satisfy growing demands for transparency, accountability, and merit. Furthermore, on certain points contemporaries fundamentally disagreed about which qualities an imperial official should have. These disagreements reflected deeper uncertainties, particularly regarding the ideal relationship to be fostered between the Company, Britain, and India. In short, this debate highlights the tensions, anxieties, and ambiguities surrounding reform and imperial expansion in the early nineteenth century.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain D History General and Old World > DS Asia |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | East India Company -- History, Great Britain -- History -- 19th century, Civil service, Colonia -- History | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | The Historical Journal | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0018-246X | ||||||||
| Official Date: | December 2017 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 60 | ||||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 943-969 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1017/S0018246X16000492 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This article has been published in a revised form in The Historical Journal: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X16000492 . This version is free to view and download for private research and study only. Not for re-distribution, re-sale or use in derivative works. © copyright holder. | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 22 May 2019 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 23 May 2019 | ||||||||
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