The British East India Company came to this subcontinent
to trade and provide lucrative returns to its shareholders in London. In the
process, the company came to be known as “Company Bahadur”; it assumed the role
of governance, ultimately making way for the establishment of the British
Empire. The development and role of the Indian Civil Service (ICS) was one of
the dominant features of the period of history dominated by the East India
Company. The evolution of the ICS, which transformed into the Indian Administrative
Service (IAS) post 1947, is an extraordinary saga: how people employed by a
trading company in a foreign land transformed into the most powerful civil
service in the world. ICS was the first civil service in the modern world where
recruitment was on the basis of open competition and not through patronage.
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