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The IPS was sometimes characterised as civil servants who didn't want to work and soldiers who didn't want to fight.
This Department was directly under the control of the Viceroy.
*1783 Established
*1843 became Foreign Department
*1914 becane Foreign and Political Department
*1937 became Indian Political Service
The Foreign and Political Department did many things: it was chiefly concerned with indirect rule, for much of British India consisted of the [[Princely States]], presided over by their hereditary rulers, advised by a British Resident belonging to the Department – “a political”.
Next, the Department housed the officers of British India’s diplomatic service – its emissaries to Kabul, the Gulf and other areas.
Finally, it hosted “the politicals” of Balochistan and the North West Frontier Province – the officers who
had chosen to make their careers in the frontier districts. The latter came about because when the NWFP was separated from the Punjab in 1901, the then Viceroy Curzon made sure the new Province was directly under his control.<ref> "Not Quite Soft Power: The Politicals" by Colonel Graeme Sligo, refer External links above.</ref>
==External links==
*Chapter 4 "Not Quite Soft Power: The Politicals", page 61, [http://www.defence.gov.au/adc/publications/commanders/2012/02_sligo%20paper.pdf ''An Historical Analysis of the ‘Incessant Disputes in the Tribal Areas’ (of the North-West Frontier) against the British (and the British Indian Army) from 1893 to 1939''] by Colonel Graeme Sligo, Australian Army October 2012. This paper was prepared for submission to the National Defence University (NDU) of Pakistan, where the author was a student in 2011-12. Australian Defence website
===Historical books online===
*For personal accounts, see [[Indian Civil Service#General|Indian Civil Service - Historical books online - General]]
==References==
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[[Category:Government and Administration]]
[[Category:Princely States|*]]
