The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj is $2.99 at Kindle, down from $9.99. Probably not now or never, as it seems to hit this price fairly frequently. $12.99 at Kobo.
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"The Ruling Caste" principally concerns the officers of the legendary India Civil Service--each of whom to perform as a magistrate, settlement officer, sanitation inspector, public-health officer, and more for the million or so people in his charge. Gilmour extends his study to every level of the administration and to the officers' women and children, so often ignored in previous works. "The Ruling Caste" is the best book yet on the real trials and triumphs of an imperial ruling class; on the dangerous temptations that an empire's power encourages; on relations between the governor and governed, between European and Asian.
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