: imperial lives in the Victorian Raj Gilmour, David. creator David Gilmour. text New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2006 monographic eng

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xxiii, 381 p. : 24cm. 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 / David Gilmour. Victorian Raj Ruling Caste Imperial Lives 954.03 GIL 9780374530808 : Raghav Books Private Limited : 2/25, First Floor, Arun House, Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, New Delhi. 260707 20260707112308.0