Order of the Star of India of India and other flags used to represent British India. The order was the fifth most senior British order of chivalry, following the Order of the Garter, Order of the Thistle, Order of St Patrick and Order of the Bath. It was the senior order of chivalry associated with the British Raj; junior to it was the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, and there was also, for women only, the Imperial Order of the Crown of India. Several years after the Indian Mutiny and the consolidation of Great Britain's power as the governing authority in India, it was
Chivalry often presented as a civilizing and stabilizing influence in the turbulent middle ages. On the contrary, Kaueper argues “that in the problem of public order the knights themselves played an ambivalent, problematic role and that the guides to their conduct that chivalry provided were in themselves complex and problematic.” Many of the codes and ideals of chivalry were of course contradictory, however, when knights did live up to them, they did not lead to a more “ordered and peaceful society”. The tripartite conception of medieval European society (those who pray, those who fight, and those who work) along with other