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==History==
Initially, the Honourable [[East India Company ]] Civil Servants handled the civil administration of India, they were covenanted to provide a lifetime of service.
Civil service control was transferred to the Indian Government under the Government of India Act of 1858 afterwards new members of the service were contracted for a 10 year term.
The creation of the Imperial Civil Service of India was as a result of the 1886–87 Public Service Commission recommendation.
Covenanted service was given by the elite top ranks of the Civil Service who gave a pledge good behaviour. Lower ranks that took Uncovenanted Service and were recuited in India, be they English, IndiaIndian, or [[Anglo-Indian]].
==Positions==
In the Regulated Provinces, those that were the older provinces with a long period of settled administration e.g. [[Madras]], [[Bombay]], the positions (after 1858) were:
*[[Assistant]] (to Magistrate and Collector)
==Entry==
Arriving in India in 1830, after 2 years patronage supported training at Hertford(1806-1809) and Haileybury Hertfordshire, England (1809-1858) entrants seeking to gain “Writership” became a student [[writer]] at The East India Compay's [[Calcutta ]] College in [[Fort William]].
Students were lavishly rewarded with ₤400 a year, and encouraged to borrow heavily to acquire high status and comfortable lifestyle - often enabling them to stable 40 horses; not unexpectedly this was reformed. Reforms still allowed students sufficient finance to keep three horses and a buggy. Club memberships and mess parties continued to allow them to gain social influence in the capital.
