From http://peopleofindia1868-1875photos.blogspot.com/ http://pazhayathu.blogspot.in/2012/04/beating-heat-and-ruling-country-english.html http://oldphotosbombay.blogspot.in/2010/06/typical-english-bungalow-see-bombay.html Running Your Little Empire- Those who went to India remembered it as a place of hard work and recalled sometimes resenting British popular stereotypes of them as having lives of leisure--waited on by servants, spending time in posh clubs, attending balls, riding to hounds. They saw the work of empire as demanding, difficult, and at times dangerous. Numerically "thin on the ground," they often assumed great responsibilities and administered vast territories or supervised numerous underlings. The Indian Civil Service (or ICS) provided the men who governed India. Graduates of British universities who had passed an examination and interviews and then undertaken a year of training in England, most eventually worked as district officers, virtual rulers of...
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