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The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives In the Victorian Raj
[Paperback - 2007]
david gilmour
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Category: History
Sub-category: South Asian History
Additional Category: South Asian Studies
Publisher: Secker & Warburg Uk | ISBN: 9780712665650 | Pages: 383
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David Gilmour describes for the first time the complete, vast and vivid panorama of the Queen Empress's Raj. He is also the author of highly acclaimed work of contemporary history on Spain and the Middle East and, more recently award-winning biographies of Giuseppe Di Lampedusa and Lord Curzon.

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David Gilmour is one of Britain s most admired and accomplished historical writers and biographers. He is the author of lives of George Curzon (Duff Cooper Prize) and Rudyard Kipling (Elizabeth Longford Prize) and of The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj, an acclaimed study of the administrators of Victorian India. His other works include The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, its Regions and their Peoples, The Last Leopard, a biography of Giuseppe di Lampedusa (Marsh Biography Award) as well as several books on the modern history of Spain and the Middle East. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a former Research Fellow of St Antony s College, Oxford.

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