The Ruling Caste · Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj by Gilmour, David -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright Notice Contents Dedication Preface Note on Spelling and Currency Glossary of Indian and Anglo-Indian Words Principal Positions in the Executive Branch of the Indian Government, 1900 Maps Introduction: Queen Victoria’s Indian Empire

Maternalism Expansionism Anglo-Indians The Mutiny The Aftermath Justifying Imperialism

1. Old Boys

Dolphin Families Exile Backgrounds The Haileybury Spirit

2. Competition Wallahs

The Career Opened to Talent Indianization Incentives Candidates Choosing a Province Jowett’s Triumph Contemporary Verdicts

3. Griffins

Voyages First Impressions First Postings First Duties Lyall among the Rebels

4. District Officers

The Pooh-Bahs of India Protectors Solomons Nuisances Ma-Bap

5. Campers

Touring the District Assessing the Land Famine and Disease Jungle Wallah

6. Magistrates and Judges

Crimes and Witnesses Conviction and Punishment The ‘Judgey’ Side Furore over Ilbert

7. Black Sheep

Drunks, Debts and a Lunatic Incompetents and Malcontents Hibernian Insubordinate Physical Justice The Odd Corruptible Mr Clarke and Mrs Howard

8. Frontiersmen

The Punjab School All along the Frontier Baluchi Backwater Plots and Polo in Manipur

9. Residents and Agents

The Political Departments Diversity and Disappointment Duties of a Resident On Deposing a Ruler Temple at Hyderabad Griffin in Central India Maynard in the Mountains

10. Mandarins

Armchairs and Clockwork Red Tape Promotions and Rewards Migrations to the Hills

11. Life at the Top

The Viceroy’s ‘Cabinet’ Lieutenant-Governors Proconsular Lyall

12. Thinkers

Readers Scholars Reactionaries Reformers

13. Players

Games Shikar Hills Furlough

14. Husbands and Lovers

In Search of a Wife Courtships in India Mistresses Lyall Infelix

15. Families and Exiles

The Shock of Asia The Memsahibs’ Routine A Sense of Exile Death in India

16. Pensioners

Repatriation Occupations Lyall Venerabilis Going Downhill

Notes Bibliography Acknowledgements Index Also by David Gilmour Copyright