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The Ruling Caste - Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj (Paperback)
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The Ruling Caste - Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj (Paperback)
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List price R656
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"[A] lavishly enjoyable book." --Tunku Varadarajan, "The Wall
Street Journal""" Between 1837 and 1901, fewer than one thousand
Britons at any one time managed an empire of 300 million people
spread over the vast area that now includes India, Pakistan,
Bangladesh, and Burma. How was this possible, and what were these
people like? The British administration in India took pride in its
efficiency and broad-mindedness, its devotion to duty and its sense
of imperial grandeur, but it has become fashionable to deprecate it
for its arrogance and ignorance. In "The Ruling Caste," a balanced,
witty, and multi-faceted history, David Gilmour goes far to explain
the paradoxes of the "Anglo-Indians," showing us what they hoped to
achieve and what sort of society they thought they were helping to
build. "[A] dense and impressive new book on the civil
administrators of Victoria's Indian Empire . . . Gilmour is a
serious historian. He writes accessibly and even wittily, with a
wealth of anecdotage and an eye for the telling story." --Shashi
Tharoor, "The Washington Post""" "Mr. Gilmour is a stylish and
engaging writer . . . [He] does make the case that the civilians,
however tarnished their cause in modern eyes, deserve better than
they get in "A Passage to India,"" --William Grimes, "The" "New
York Times"
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