As you all know IAS has become backbone of Indian Bureaucracy. Even from the time of British Raj it was felt that Govt. Of India needs and intensive cadre of qualified and well intellectual people who can support and contribute in running of the Government.
In the 1860s after the takeover of the East India Company over India, the British Civil Service came to India. In the beginning, the British civil service was a part of a police state where its major task was that of carrying out law and order functions. There was no code of conduct developed by any of the British-India provinces. The different provinces had different civil services.
To make a clear distinction between the government officials from the army officials, the term civil service was used by the British government in undivided Punjab in the later part of the 19th century.
The British government set up the Indian civil service in 1911, primarily with the objective of strengthening the British administration in the United Kingdom. Under the East India Company administrators of their controlled territories were engaged. These became the Honorable East India Company Civil Servants (HEICS).
The Indian Civil Service (commonly known as the Imperial Civil Service or ICS) was the civil service of the Indian Government under the British colonial rule in India. They were appointed under Section XXXII of the Government of India Act of 1858 to posts which were reserved for them alone.
This service still continues in the contemporary Civil Services of India, though these are now organised differently post-independence.
ICS officers helped the then British Raj to rule on Indian Sub-Continent in a manner which was really unimaginable for anyone. As earlier they were all British Officers and it was very difficult for them to rule a country with size many times larger than theirs, with many terrains, many languages, cultures etc.
In 20th century it became one of the most prestigious service in India, when govt. allowed Indian people to sit in the exam and to qualify for this service.
Some of our greatest freedom fighters topped Civil Services exams in pre-Independence era and shown the Imperial Govt. that Indian are the best.
In the 1860s after the takeover of the East India Company over India, the British Civil Service came to India. In the beginning, the British civil service was a part of a police state where its major task was that of carrying out law and order functions. There was no code of conduct developed by any of the British-India provinces. The different provinces had different civil services.
To make a clear distinction between the government officials from the army officials, the term civil service was used by the British government in undivided Punjab in the later part of the 19th century.
The British government set up the Indian civil service in 1911, primarily with the objective of strengthening the British administration in the United Kingdom. Under the East India Company administrators of their controlled territories were engaged. These became the Honorable East India Company Civil Servants (HEICS).
The Indian Civil Service (commonly known as the Imperial Civil Service or ICS) was the civil service of the Indian Government under the British colonial rule in India. They were appointed under Section XXXII of the Government of India Act of 1858 to posts which were reserved for them alone.
This service still continues in the contemporary Civil Services of India, though these are now organised differently post-independence.
In 20th century it became one of the most prestigious service in India, when govt. allowed Indian people to sit in the exam and to qualify for this service.
Some of our greatest freedom fighters topped Civil Services exams in pre-Independence era and shown the Imperial Govt. that Indian are the best.
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