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The Ring of Services explores the Indianisation of the British Raj in the years after World War I. The work travels inside the government with the Indians who came forward to staff the elite services of the Raj, just as Mohandas Gandhi was launching his epic campaigns against British rule. Middle class youngsters studied at Oxford and Cambridge and Sandhurst before returning to India to learn the ways of the Raj from kindly old British distric...

The Licence Raj remembers India's tryst with socialism in the years after Independence. The dream of a resurgent Indian economy was, even by 1947, an old one. Students of Elphinstone College, Bombay had written the first economic critiques of the British Raj a century earlier. A professor of mathematics, Dadabhai Naoroji then told the world of the drain of India's wealth under British rule. The jurist Mahadev Ranade wanted to create a uniquely...