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Indianization of the Services

1918

There are also numerous other small services and special appointments in particular Departments such as the Archaeological Department the Meteorological Department the Electrical Department the Actuary to the Government of India the Controller of Patents the Architects Department the Zoological Survey Department the European Gardeners' Deparment the Satistical Department the Ecclesias [...] Justice Rahim in the event of his proposals as to simultaneous examinations not being accepted suggested that one-third of the executive branch the strength of which according to the cadre is 1 020 officers should be Indians and that for the present two-thirds of the judicial branch should be recruited from the B*r the whole of the judicial service being ultimately recruited from that service. [...] (2) The probabilities that the number of British officers in the service at present will be materially reduced in the future and that the available supply of young men in the United Kingdom of the requisite qualifications who will be willing to serve in the country under the altered conditions. [...] Indeed no one with any knowledge of the country can contemplate with equanimity the prospect of the whole Civil Service being in the hands of men of three or four provinces to the exclusion of the rest of India nor could they carry on the administration efficiently say in the Punjab or in the North-West Frontier Province. [...] The Public Services Commision of 1886 in that portion of their report which deals with the police refer to the narmmounfc importance of law and order to the absence of European officers before 1861 as one of the causes if not the main cause of the abuses with which the police were universally charged and to the improvement which resulted from the introduction of European officers into
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Frontmatter
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Notes on the Indunizition of the Services by Sir William Vincent and Mr. Bhupendranath Basu
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The Indian Civil Service
3-8 W.H Vincent view
The Indian Police Service
9-11 W.H Vincent view
Note by Mr. Bhupendranath Basu
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Indianisation
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Indianisation of the Services
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Appendix
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