Between Mars and Mammon; the East India Company and Efforts to Reform its Army, 1796–1832
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8958710 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Douglas M Peers (0000-0003-1159-1208, University of Calgary, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 385-401 |
| Publication date | 1990-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Historical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-246X • E-ISSN: 1469-5103 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0018246x00013388 |
| OpenAlex | W2068401044 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 13 |
The history of the East India Company's rule of India is marked by sporadic outbursts of civil-military conflict. It was not unknown in India for European officers to down tools and commit acts that bordered on outright mutiny. Perhaps this could be expected when, on the one hand, the Company, as a commercial body, sought to maximize its profits, while on the other, the army was essentially a mercenary force, ever grasping for a larger slice of the fiscal pie. If, however, we penetrate deeper into the labyrinth of their relations, we find that the issues at stake lose their simplicity. In the early nineteenth century, a third group came into play, further confusing the state of civil-military relations in India. The Anglo-Indian bureaucracy, which had incorporated military attitudes into the operating system of British India, had begun to assert itself. Through such spokesmen as Thomas Munro, John Malcolm, Charles Metcalfe and Mountstuart Elphinstone, an increasingly militarized rule of British India was put forward, angering the court of directors and allowing the officers to mask their private interest under the guise of the national interest. This ideology of militarism, however, must be firmly placed within the context of nineteenth-century British India for it bore little resemblance to those strains of militarism witnessed elsewhere
Adversarial system · Alliance · Bureaucracy · Commit · Context (archaeology · Economic history · Ideology · Militarism · Mutiny · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies · History · Law · Military History and Strategy · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
The English utilitarians and India.
The Political History of India
Life of the Honourable Mountstuart Elphinstone
The Invention Of Tradition
The Military and the Problem of Legitimacy
Social Origins of Officers in the Indian and British Home Army
The East India Company and Army Reform, 1783-1798
Lord William Bentinck
Lord William Bentinck
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 2014 (19) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |