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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 and new members of the service were contacted for a is 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.
==Entry==
Arriving in India in 1830, entrants became a student [[writerswriter]] at Calcutta College, Fort William, and sought to gain “Writership”.
Students were lavishly rewarded, 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 to finance the keep three horses and a buggy. Club memberships and mess parties continued to allow them to gain social influence in the capital.
By 1880 courses of instruction to study native languages were carried out at Hertford and Haileybury England. Young men were deemed to be fit for immediate service so no longer socialised in the capital unlike their predecessors. They would rely on local tutors to acquire the local dialect.
