The Ruling Caste

ISBN: 9780374530808

出版社: Farrar Straus & Giroux

出版年: 2007-6

页数: 381

定价: $ 21.47

装帧: Pap

内容简介

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.