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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. Its members ruled over more than 300 million people [1] in the presidencies and provinces of British India and were ultimately responsible for ...
The British Raj (/ r ɑː dʒ / RAHJ; from Hindustani rāj, 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') [10] was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent, [11] lasting from 1858 to 1947. [12] It is also called Crown rule in India , [ 13 ] or Direct rule in India . [ 14 ]
The present civil services of India are mainly based on the pattern of the former Indian Civil Service of British India. During the British raj, Warren Hastings laid the foundation of civil service and Charles Cornwallis reformed, modernised, and rationalised it. Hence, Charles Cornwallis is known as 'the Father of civil service in India'.
Magistrate and Collector of Hooghly, (1910); also Commissioner (offg.), Burdwan, Bengal (1905) Maharajadhiraj Sir Rameshwar Singh Bahadur. 1878. 1885. 1885 {appointed a Member of the Legislative Council of Bengal} Magistrate and Collector of Darbhanga, Chhapra, and Bhagalpur. Perungavur Rajagopalachari (later Diwan Bahadur and Sir) 1886.
Harrington Verney Lovett, Esq., Indian Civil Service, 9 November 1901 [13] Elizabeth Adelaide Manning, awarded the medal in 1904 for distinguished service in the advancement of the interests of the British Raj [24] Sir Francis William Maclean, for distinguished service in the advancement of the interests of the British Raj [18] [25]
British Raj. Today part of. India. Pakistan. Bangladesh. East India Company rule in India (or the Company Raj, [6] from Hindi rāj, lit. 'rule'[7]) was the rule of the British East India Company on the Indian subcontinent. This is variously taken to have commenced between 1757 and 1773.
The British Raj was the period of British Parliament rule on the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947, for around 89 years of British occupation. The system of governance was instituted in 1858 when the rule of the East India Company was transferred to the Crown in the person of Queen Victoria. The British Raj lasted until 1947, when the ...
Publisher. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Media type. Hardcover. Pages. 640. ISBN. 978-0374116859. The British in India: A Social History of the Raj is a nonfiction book by David Gilmour, a British historian.