The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj by David Gilmour

The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj

David Gilmour

381 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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A sparkling, provocative history of the English in South Asia during Queen Victoria's reignBetween 1837 and 1901, less than 100,000 Britons at any one time managed an empire of 300 million people spread over the vast area that now includes India, ...

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