num_pages: 405
description: Historian David Gilmour provides a balanced and compelling account of the 1,000 or so officials and civil servants who administered vast areas of south Asia — nearly 300 million people — tracing their lives from recruitment to retirement.
language: English
title: The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj
titlecomplete: The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj
genres: British Literature, History, India, 19th Century, Nonfiction, Victorian
ratings_count: 136
publisher: Pimlico