Indian Civil Service | MCQs

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Satyendranath Tagore was an Indian Bengali civil servant, poet, composer, writer, social reformer and linguist from Kolkata, West Bengal.

He was the first Indian who became an Indian Civil Service officer in 1863.

He was a member of Bramho Samaj.

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Charles Cornwallis is often referred to as the 'Father of Civil Service in India'.

Cornwallis was the Governor-General of India from 1786 to 1793 and again from 1805 to 1806. 

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Lord Cornwallis, one of the Governor Generals of Bengal, introduced Civil Services to India.

The Indian Civil Service (ICS), officially known as the Imperial Civil Service

The Indian Civil Service (ICS) was the higher civil service of the British Empire in India during British rule in the period between 1858 and 1947.

Its members ruled over more than 300 million people

The Indian Civil Service (ICS) was appointed under Section XXXII(32) of the Government of India Act 1858