History of Indian Civil Service_Hard Fact

In 1854, the British rulers introduced the principle of open competitive examination for entry into the Indian Civil Service (ICS). Although Indians had a right to sit for it, the only examination centre was in London and the system operated as a bar to those who could not afford to travel so far.

The Indianisation of the ICS started only in 1922, when the entrance examination was held simultaneously in Allahabad. However, the ICS continued to be dominated by the British, and it was often denigrated as ‘neither Indian, nor Civil, nor Service’.