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028			_a: Raghav Books Private Limited _b: 2/25, First Floor, Arun House, Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, New Delhi. _c: 2967 _d: 03/07/2026
082			_a954.03 GIL
100			_aGilmour, David.
245			_a The ruling caste _b : imperial lives in the Victorian Raj. _c/ David Gilmour.
260			_aNew York _b: Farrar, Straus and Giroux _c , 2006.
300			_axxiii, 381 p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b1979
520			_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
650			_aVictorian Raj
650			_aRuling Caste
650			_aImperial Lives
700			_aDavid Gilmour.
942			_cBOOK
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