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Difference between role of civil service during british rule and modern India

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The Indian Civil Service (ICS), for part of the 19th century officially known as the Imperial Civil Service, is the elite higher civil service of the British Empire in British India during British rule in the period between 1858 and 1947.

Its members ruled over more than 300 million people[1] in the British Raj. They were ultimately responsible for overseeing all government activity in the 250 districts that comprised British India. They were appointed under Section XXXII(32) of the Government of India Act 1858,[2][3] enacted by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.[4] The ICS was headed by the Secretary of State for India, a member of the British cabinet.