Paper I · 9 Modern India & the National Movement · 9.1.4 British administration

9.1.4.1 Civil services under the Company and the Crown

The Indian Civil Service grew from the Company's trading clerks into the "steel frame" of British rule, and its history is the history of the slow, grudging opening of senior posts to Indians.

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Key terms

  • covenanted civil service
  • Cornwallis
  • Fort William College
  • Macaulay Committee
  • Aitchison Commission
  • Lee Commission
  • Statutory Civil Service

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