Talk:Indian Civil Service

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Contemporary "Indian Civil Services" are different than 'civil services' in colonial India. The information about colonial India is completely irrelevant today. 24.126.17.155 03:30, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

ICS was NOT established by British. 24.126.17.155 03:45, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

Dear Anon, I understand that you've been checking out all my contributions lately, and trying to revert any change I make. That is NOT what wikipedians should do. Indian Civil Service is a historic entity, if you say it was not established by the British, who did it? The Mughals?? Please google for a bit and see the name of the civil service until 1947. Tagore's Brother was the first ICS from India (See Rabindranath Tagore. I did put most of the stuff in the history section, and you are more than welcome to add to the subsequent section about contemporary Indian Civil Service. But other than that, please don't take things personally, stalk me and undo whatever changes I make just out of personal revenge. Thanks. --Ragib 03:57, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

Ok. No hard feelings. But I stand by my article. Your article gives only the history of ICS and the information is outdated. 24.126.17.155 04:03, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

Ok, check when the article was created. Today. Just an hour or so ago!! I started the article to fill out the gap, already about 20 articles had links to it, but the article was not present. This is how articles get started in Wikipedia, people make it better by add to it. I sincerely hope you saw that there was a {{India-stub}} at the end of my first version, and I hoped someone is going to add to it. The initial history section was my starting point for the article, and I am definitely not the right person to write on the current state of the Indian Civil Service. You are welcome to do so and I thank you for filling out that part. But don't call parts of article sheer "nonsense" because the history is really a well-documented fact.
Anyway, as you say, no hard feelings, and lets add more to make it even better. Thanks. --Ragib 04:11, 20 May 2005 (UTC)


I like your latest article. 24.126.17.155 04:05, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Reverting Article

I did start discussion here, and I do welcome discussion. So, I am keeping the current content and adding the history part above it. --Ragib 03:57, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Indian Foreign Service

Hi all:

Please refer

http://meaindia.nic.in/onmouse/ifs1.htm

specifically this:

In 1947, there was a near seamless transformation of the Foreign and Political department of the British India government into what then became the new Ministry of External Affairs and Commonwealth Relations and in 1948 the first batch recruited under the combined Civil service examination system of the Union Public Service Commission joined the service. This system of entry has remained the staple mode of intake into the IFS to this day.


Indian Foreign Service is also part of Indian Civil Service (or Indian Administrative Service, if you will), though I doubt if they qualify to be ab All India Service (AIS)?? Hence not tampered with a later mention of AIS.

The website is maintained by the Ministry of External Affairs, GoI.

[edit] New categories

I've made a new category for India, and marked this as the lead article, in tidying up the worldwide Category:Civil services.--Mereda 16:37, 23 June 2006 (UTC)