The Ruling Caste

Informationen zum Autor 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 . Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: David Gilmour
• Publisher: Pimlico
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2007
• EAN: 9780712665650
• ISBN: 978-0-7126-6565-0
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia, India, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms