The Men Who Ruled India

The Men Who Ruled India is a masterly distillation of Philip Mason’s two classics, The Founders and the Guardians, which were written soon after British withdrawal from the sub-continent, when the sight and sounds and smells of an area the size of Europe were still fresh in memory.From the days of the first English arrivals in India at the turn of the sixteenth century right through to independence, Mason vividly chronicles the lives of men who fought, built bridges and railways, administered paternal justice in villages, held missions and conducted a love affair with the most cherished jewel of the British Empire.