How the ‘The Steel Frame’ of IAS Has Bent from British to Bharat
The Indian civil services was created by the British to provide an intellectual grounding for the empire’s need to “improve India”. The early recruits were fed heavily on the dose of liberalism and utilitarianism. The principal of civil services was based on a belief that the triumph of science and reason, of political economy and of law and government, that had made the West superior, would also help India strip herself of the shackles of despotism, custom and tradition.
A new book on Indian Civil services, titled…