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Ruling Caste Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj

Gilmour, David
Heftet / 2007 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780712665650
Publisert
2007
Utgiver
Vendor
Pimlico
Vekt
304 gr
Høyde
197 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
27 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Gilmour, David

Om bidragsyterne

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.

Ruling Caste Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj

Gilmour, David
Heftet / 2007 / Engelsk
Gilmour, David
Heftet / 2007 / Engelsk
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Beautifully written and endlessly diverting... Excellent

- Denis Judd, Times Literary Supplement

A book that is not only informative, but also lucid, witty, and extremely well-written

Daily Telegraph

Based on stunningly exhaustive research in official archives and family papers, and written with tremendous wit, style and sense of pace, Gilmour's book is a masterful account of British life in India. If you have ever wondered what it would have been like to run the Raj, <i>The Ruling Caste</i> has all the answers.

- Dominic Sandbrook, Scotsman

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Gilmour is the perfect companion to Victorian India - shrewd, funny, always a joy to read. He writes lean, elegant prose and wears his learning lightly... In David Gilmour, the British in India have at last found the historian they deserve. This is a marvellous book

- Jane Ridley, Spectator

Masterly and fascinating

Sunday Times

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.
Les mer
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.
Beautifully written and endlessly diverting... Excellent
Acclaimed historian David Gilmour gives us a compelling account of the public and private lives of the Britons who ruled colonial India.

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Beautifully written and endlessly diverting... Excellent

- Denis Judd, Times Literary Supplement

A book that is not only informative, but also lucid, witty, and extremely well-written

Daily Telegraph

Based on stunningly exhaustive research in official archives and family papers, and written with tremendous wit, style and sense of pace, Gilmour's book is a masterful account of British life in India. If you have ever wondered what it would have been like to run the Raj, <i>The Ruling Caste</i> has all the answers.

- Dominic Sandbrook, Scotsman

Se alle

Gilmour is the perfect companion to Victorian India - shrewd, funny, always a joy to read. He writes lean, elegant prose and wears his learning lightly... In David Gilmour, the British in India have at last found the historian they deserve. This is a marvellous book

- Jane Ridley, Spectator

Masterly and fascinating

Sunday Times

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.
Les mer
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.
Beautifully written and endlessly diverting... Excellent
Acclaimed historian David Gilmour gives us a compelling account of the public and private lives of the Britons who ruled colonial India.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780712665650
Publisert
2007
Utgiver
Vendor
Pimlico
Vekt
304 gr
Høyde
197 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
27 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Gilmour, David

Om bidragsyterne

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.

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