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However, in “The Ruling Caste,” David Gilmour, constructs a portrait of India that is far different from those found in other works. As opposed to focusing on the lives of the Indians, Gilmour looks to the few thousand British civil servants who, for about a century, were in charge of running a country of over 300 million people...
...Gilmour devotes just a small portion of the book to Victoria and Disraeli. The Indian Civil Service (ICS) becomes the preliminary focus of Gilmour’s book, which includes letters, pictures, and diagrams that encompass the British experience within their precious jewel of India...
Currently, crossing the border illegally is a civil offense—lower in severity than a misdemeanor—the same as a foreign student at Harvard overstaying his visa. If you are caught, you are understandably sent back. But what happens if your original offense happened 3, 6, 10 years ago? House Republicans have not differentiated between someone caught on the U.S.-Mexican border this morning and someone who has been raising a family, working, and (in many cases) paying taxes for the past 10 years. Under current law, there is no statute of limitations (although in practice, immigration...
...Kennedy School of Government is expected to launch an executive program next January in New Delhi to train India’s highest level civil servants. The program, which arose from an initiative by the Indian government to improve their civil service training, will coach members of the Indian government in leadership, policy analysis, and world economic issues. Christine Letts, associate dean for executive education, said that the program offered a great opportunity for the Kennedy School. “India is on the precipice of major contribution to the world and are undergoing a lot of changes in terms...
...show how history keeps repeating itself, when Truman was trying to decide what to do about MacArthur, he apparently sent somebody to the Library of Congress to get out the documents that had to do with Lincoln's problems with General George McClellan [during the Civil...