The Ruling Caste

Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj

By:

David Gilmour

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Paperback / softback

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Acclaimed historian David Gilmour gives us a compelling account of the public and private lives of the Britons who ruled colonial India. In 1900 just over a thousand British civil servants ruled a population of nearly 300 million people spread over a territory now covered by India, Pakistan, Burma and Bangladesh. In its time, the Indian Civil Service was regarded as efficient, benevolent and incorruptible, but revisionist historians have recently questioned its competence and derided its altruism. In this absorbing, extensively researched new book, David Gilmour traces the lives of its officials, from recruitment to retirement, from jungle to Government House, from a bungalow in Burma to a residency in Rajputana. He describes their work and their leisure, their intellectual and their private lives. The result is a portrait more varied and complicated than that painted by their old admirers, and yet fairer and subtler than those routinely produced by their post-colonial detractors.

Author Biography:

David Gilmour's books include award-winning biographies of Rudyard Kipling, Lord Curzon and the Italian writer, Giuseppe di Lampedusa. He is also the author of Cities of Spain and of several works on the politics of Spain and the Middle East. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a former Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, he is a contributor to the New York Review of Books.

Release date Australia

February 1st, 2007

Author

David Gilmour

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Illustrations

16pp b/w photographs

Pages

432

Dimensions

129x198x26

ISBN-13

9780712665650

Product ID

1744252

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