List of Indian members of the Indian Civil Service
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This article contains a list of British Indians members of the Indian Civil Service (ICS) in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
1861-1899[]
Name | Year of Examination | Year of Joining | Year of Resignation/Disqualification | Rank | Final Posting |
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1863 | 1864 | Judge, Satara | |||
Romesh Dutt | 1869 | 1871 | Commissioner (offgt.) of Orissa; later Dewan, Baroda | ||
Behari Lal Gupta | 1869 | 1871 | , Bengal; later Chief Minister, Baroda | ||
Surendranath Banerjee (later Sir) | 1869 | 1871 | 1871 (Disqualification) | Minister in the Dyarchy Cabinet in Bengal, 1921-1926 | |
Ananda Ram Baruah | 1870 | 1872 | The first ICS from Assam/North-East | District Magistrate and Collector in Bengal | |
Krishna Govinda Gupta (later Sir) | 1871 | 1873 | Commissioner, Bengal; later member, , UK | ||
Brajendranath De | 1873 | 1875 | 17th | 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 | 1888 | Chairman of the Madras Legislative Council | ||
Basanta Kumar Mullick | 1887 | 1889 | Puisne Judge of the Patna High Court | ||
Albion Rajkumar Banerjee (later Sir) | 1894 | 1895 | Prime Minister of Kashmir; Dewan of Mysore | ||
Atul Chandra Chatterjee (later Sir) | 1896 | 1897 | |||
[1] Pulicat Ratnavelu Chetty[2] | 1876 | 1876 | 1881 | first from madras presidency | Tragic death in palakkad age 25,Acting Head Assistant Collector, Malabar[3] |
Abdullah Yusuf Ali[4][5] | 1894 | 1896 | Resigned in 1914 | Ranked seventh. | Kanpur? |
1900-1947[]
Name |
Year of Examination | Year of Joining | Year of Resignation/Disqualification | Rank | Final Posting | ||||||||||||||||
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Sarat Kumar Ghosh (later Sir) | 1903 | 1903 | Chief Justice of Jaipur & of Kashmir | ||||||||||||||||||
Gurusaday Dutt | 1905 | 1905 | First Indian to come first in any part of the Open Competitive Services examination; 1st (in the 2nd Part) | Secretary, Local Self Government and Public Health | |||||||||||||||||
Benegal Narsing Rau (later Sir) | 1908 | 1909 | Prime Minister of Kashmir | ||||||||||||||||||
Benegal Rama Rau (later Sir) | Governor, Reserve Bank of India | ||||||||||||||||||||
Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi (later Sir) | Governor of the Punjab | ||||||||||||||||||||
S. V. Ramamurthy (later Sir) | 1911 | Acting Governor of Bombay | |||||||||||||||||||
Chintaman Dwarakanath Deshmukh (later Sir, CIE) | 1918 | 1st | 1st Indian Governor of Reserve Bank of India; Finance Minister of India | ||||||||||||||||||
Muhammad Saleh Akbar Hydari Jr. (later Sir) | 1918 | 1919 | Governor of Assam | ||||||||||||||||||
Sukumar Sen | 1919 | 1921 | Chief Election Commissioner of India | ||||||||||||||||||
Subhas Chandra Bose | 1920 | 1921 | 1921(Resignation) | 4th | |||||||||||||||||
Y. N. Sukthankar (later CIE) | 1921 | Second Cabinet Secretary of India | |||||||||||||||||||
Sudhansu Kumar Das | 1921 | Acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India | |||||||||||||||||||
K. P. S. Menon | First Foreign Secretary (India) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Nilakanta Mahadeva Iyer (later CIE) | 1922 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Binay Ranjan Sen (later CIE) | 1922 | ||||||||||||||||||||
N. R. Pillai (later Sir) | 1923 | First Cabinet Secretary of India | |||||||||||||||||||
C. S. Venkatachari | 1923 | Chief Minister of Rajasthan | |||||||||||||||||||
Girija Shankar Bajpai (later Sir) | Governor of Maharashtra | ||||||||||||||||||||
S. Venkateswaran | 1925 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Annada Shankar Ray | 1927 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Birendra Narayan Chakraborty | 1928 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Subimal Dutt | 1928 | Foreign Secretary (India) | |||||||||||||||||||
Dharma Vira | 1931 | Governor of West Bengal | |||||||||||||||||||
S. Bhoothalingam | 1931 | Finance Secretary of India | |||||||||||||||||||
Bhairab Dutt Pande | Governor of West Bengal | ||||||||||||||||||||
Lallan Prasad Singh | Aditya Nath Jha Last posting First Lt. Governor of Delhi | Governor of Assam | |||||||||||||||||||
Lakshmi Kant Jha | Indian Ambassador to United States | ||||||||||||||||||||
Haribhai M. Patel | Defence Minister, Government of India | ||||||||||||||||||||
MS Randhawa | 1934 | Chief Commissioner of Chandigarh | |||||||||||||||||||
Maharaj Sri Nagendra Singh | President of the International Court of Justice, The Hague | ||||||||||||||||||||
K.B. Lall | Secretary, Defence, GOI | ||||||||||||||||||||
Tarlok Singh | 1937 | Member of the Planning Commission of India | |||||||||||||||||||
V. K. Rao | 1937 | 1938 | |||||||||||||||||||
Triloki Nath Kaul | 1939 | Ambassador, Foreign Secretary | |||||||||||||||||||
Govind Narain | 1939 | Governor of Karnataka | |||||||||||||||||||
H.V.R. Iyengar | Governor of the Reserve Bank of India | ||||||||||||||||||||
S. Jagannathan | Governor of the Reserve Bank of India | ||||||||||||||||||||
Chandrika Prasad Srivastava (later Sir) | Secretary General of International Maritime Organization, London | ||||||||||||||||||||
Sushil Chandra Mishra | 1940 | Collector of Satna and Tikamgarh, Chairman of | |||||||||||||||||||
Nirmal Kumar Mukarji | 1941 | 1943 | 1st Rank from the Last Batch of ICS | Governor of Punjab, Last ICS officer in the Indian Government-8th Home Secretary 13th Cabinet Secretary of India | |||||||||||||||||
Bhagwan Singh (later Captain) | 1946 | Indian High Commissioner to Fiji |
References[]
- ^ Shaji, K. a (2017-08-20). "Honouring a life lost to racism". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2021-02-12.
- ^ "The tragic story of Pulicat Ratnavelu Chetty - ICS – Palghat 1879-1881". Retrieved 2021-02-12.
- ^ "Racism and it's 19th century martyr from South India -The story of Ratnavelu Chetti ICS -". Racism and it’s 19th century martyr from South India -The story of Ratnavelu Chetti ICS -. Retrieved 2021-02-12.
- ^ M.A. Sherif, Searching for Solace, A Biography of Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Interpreter of the Qur'an, Islamic Book Trust, Kuala Lumpur, 1994.
- ^ Sreekumar, G. (September 16, 2021). "Abdullah Yusuf Ali: Triumph and Tragedy". A Central Banker's Miscellany.
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