The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives In Victorian Raj David Gilmour Pimlico Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

In 1900 Just Over A Thousand British Civil Servants Ruled Population Of Nearly 300 Million People Spread Territory Now Covered By India Pakistan Burma And Bangladesh Its Time The Indian Service Was Regarded As Efficient Benevolent Incorruptible But Revisionist Historians Have Recently Questioned Competence Derided Altruism This Absorbing Extensively Researched New Book David Gilmour Traces Lives Officials From Recruitment To Retirement Jungle Government House Bungalow Residency Rajputana He Describes Their Work Leisure Intellectual Private Result Is Portrait More Varied Complicated Than That Painted Old Admirers Yet Fairer Subtler Those Routinely Produced Post-Colonial Detractors Σελίδες: 432 Διαστάσεις: 12 9X12 9Cm