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*[[Civil Service reading list]]*[[Life in India#Work|Life in India-Work]]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Administrators_in_British_India Category: Administrators in British India] Wikipedia
*Three reviews of the book ''The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj'' by David Gilmour
:[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/30/books/review/30sherman.html New York Times Review 30 April 2006], ,[http://tharoor.in/articles/the-british-civil-servants-who-ran-india-were-enthralled-with-their-domain-and-detached-from-it Review by Shashi Tharoor, Member of Parliament, India], [http://www.asianreviewofbooks.com/arb/article.php?article=717 Asian Review of Books 10 September 2006].
:This book is available through Amazon.co.uk from the [http://astore.amazon.co.uk/faminbriindso-21/detail/071266565X FIBIS Shop]
*[http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?203758 “The Men Who Ruled India”] dated 25 June 1997 Outlookindia.com
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==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 Company'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.
==Individuals==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Mortimer_Durand Henry Mortimer Durand] (Wikipedia) was Foreign Secretary from 1884-1894. See also [[Simla Rifles#Individuals|Simla Rifles-Individuals]]
*In 1923, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olaf_Caroe Olaf Caroe] (Wikipedia) joined the Indian Political Service; served as Foreign Secretary (1939-45) and as Governor of the [[North West Frontier Province ]] (NWFP) from March 1946 to June 1947. [http://www.hindu.com/fline/fl2309/stories/20060519001908300.htm "Caroe's lessons"] by AG Noorani, a review, from Frontline May 2006, of the book ''The Future of The Great Game: Sir Olaf Caroe, India's Independence, and the Defense of Asia'' by Peter John Brobst. This book is available through Amazon.co.uk from the [http://astore.amazon.co.uk/faminbriindso-21/detail/1931968101 FIBIS Shop]*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/1999-01/0917632468 January 1999 post] contains a copy of the Daily Telegraph (London) obituary of Philip Mason, who joined the Civil Service in 1928. He was the author of the books about the Indian Civil Service, ''The Men Who Ruled India'', published in two volumes, ''The Founders'' (1953) and ''The Guardians'' (1954). The books were originally published under the name Philip Woodruff. A one volume abridged edition was published in 1985. His many books include an autobiography ''A Shaft of Sunlight: Memories of a Varied Life'' (1978). These books are available at the [[British Library]].
==See also==
==External Links==
*[[wikipedia:Indian Civil Service]]
===Historical books online===
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