Journeys to Empire: Enlightenment, Imperialism, and the British Encounter with Tibet, 1774-1904 (review)

[...] Bogle's "willingness to marry a local woman, to openly acknowledge and assume responsibility for the children, and to take care of the widow through a monthly pension disbursed by a Calcutta law firm" was replaced by an ideology that "tried to 'make the empire respectable' by 'frowning on miscegenation' and distancing the colonial administrators from those who were being ruled" (59, 61). [...] it was post-Enlightenment values, associated with a highly successful industrial capitalism, and in the British case the emergence of Victorian middle-class morality, that closed down the hybrid possibilities that were still possible in the 1700s" (229).