01880nam a22002417a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802801270007608200150020310000210021824500810023926000530032030000270037336500090040052009920040965000180140165000170141965000190143670000190145594200090147499900170148395201380150020260707112308.0260707b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780374530808  a: Raghav Books Private Limitedb: 2/25, First Floor, Arun House, Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, New Delhi.c: 2967d: 03/07/2026  a954.03 GIL  aGilmour, David.   a The ruling casteb : imperial lives in the Victorian Raj.c/ David Gilmour.  aNew York b: Farrar, Straus and Girouxc , 2006.  axxiii, 381 p.c: 24cm.  b1979  aBetween 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  aVictorian Raj  aRuling Caste  aImperial Lives  aDavid Gilmour.  cBOOK  c70286d70286  00102ddc4070aSNULbSNULd2026-07-07eRaghav Books Pvt. Ptd.g1979.00l0o954.03 GILp31586r2026-07-07 11:23:32w2026-07-07yBOOK