EVOLUTION OF CIVIL SERVICE IN THE SUBCONTINENT - PHILOSOPHIC UNDERPINNINGS AND COLONIAL STEELFRAME

Abstract

As a public sector institution, the civil service has played a defining role in consolidating and advancing the key objectives of the colonial rule in the subcontinent. It has also been the driving force behind administering justice and development. The note looks at the evolutionary process of how the foreign rulers had raised the administrative structures and constituted an imperial service arrayed with vast powers and responsibilities.