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In India, the Civil Service is the collection of civil servants of the government who constitute the permanent executive branch of the country. [1] [2] This includes servants in the All India Services, the Central Civil Services, and various State Civil Services.
Administrators of the native states of India; Administrators of British India who came as servants of the East India Company before the formation of the ICS in 1853; Members of the former Indian Civil Service (ICS) as well as the superior central and nationalised services in British India, who joined the civil service after 1853.
The Indian Civil Service (ICS), officially known as the Imperial Civil Service, was the higher civil service of the British Empire in India during British rule in the period between 1858 and 1947.
The Central Civil Services (CCS) encompass the various Civil Services of India that are exclusively under the jurisdiction of the Government of India.This is in contrast to the All India Services, which are common to both the central and state governments, or the state civil services, which fall under the purview of individual states.
The history of All India Services dates back to the British era when initially Civil Servants were appointed by the Court of Directors of the British East India Company. The service in those times was known as 'Covenanted Civil Service'. With time, they came to be known as Indian Civil Service (ICS).
He laid down the qualifications for appointments of civil servants. During 1000–1600 AD, in the medieval period, Akbar the Great nurtured the civil service. It was during his period there was initiation of land reforms and established the land revenue system which later formed to become the constituent of the Indian taxation system. [1] [2]
This category is for articles about the contemporary civil services of the Republic of India, i.e. from 1947 to the present. For pre-1947 Indian Civil Service , see Category:Indian Civil Service . Subcategories
This category is for the civil services of India as a whole, through history. For the civil service under British rule, see Category:Indian Civil Service; For the civil service of modern-day India, including the All India Services, see Category:Civil Services of India