List of Indian members of the Indian Civil Service

This article contains a list of British Indians members of the Indian Civil Service (ICS) in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

1855–1899

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Name Year of examination Year of joining Year of resignation/ disqualification Rank Final posting
Satyendranath Tagore 1863 1864 Judge, Satara, First Indian ever, who qualified as well as served Imperial Civil Service.[1]
Romesh Dutt 1869 1871 Officiating Commissioner of Orissa; later Dewan, Baroda
Behari Lal Gupta 1869 1871 Sessions judge, Bengal; later chief minister, Baroda
Surendranath Banerjee (later Sir) 1869 1871 1871 (Disqualification) Minister in the Dyarchy Cabinet in Bengal, 1921-1926
Ananda Ram Baruah 1870 1872 The first ICS from Assam/North-East District Magistrate and Collector in Bengal
Krishna Govinda Gupta (later Sir) 1871 1873 Commissioner, Bengal; later member, Secretary of State's Council, UK
Brajendranath De 1873 1875 17th Magistrate and Collector of Hooghly, (1910); also Commissioner (offg.), Burdwan, Bengal (1905)
Maharajadhiraj Sir Rameshwar Singh Bahadur 1878 1885 1885 {appointed a Member of the Legislative Council of Bengal} Magistrate and Collector of Darbhanga, Chhapra, and Bhagalpur.
Perungavur Rajagopalachari (later Diwan Bahadur and Sir) 1886 1888 Chairman of the Madras Legislative Council
Basanta Kumar Mullick 1887 1889 Puisne Judge of the Patna High Court
Albion Rajkumar Banerjee (later Sir) 1894 1895 Prime Minister of Kashmir; Dewan of Mysore
Atul Chandra Chatterjee (later Sir) 1896 1897
Pulicat Ratnavelu Chetty[2][3] 1876 1876 1881 first from madras presidency Death in palakkad age 25, Acting Head Assistant Collector, Malabar[4]
Abdullah Yusuf Ali[5][6] 1894 1896 Resigned in 1914 Ranked seventh. Kanpur?

1900–1947

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Name Year of examination Year of joining Year of resignation/ disqualification Rank Final posting
Sarat Kumar Ghosh (later Sir) 1903 1903 Chief Justice of Jaipur & of Kashmir
Gurusaday Dutt 1905 1905 First Indian to come first in any part of the Open Competitive Services examination; 1st (in the 2nd Part) Secretary, Local Self Government and Public Health
Benegal Narsing Rau (later Sir) 1908 1909 Prime Minister of Kashmir
Benegal Rama Rau (later Sir) Governor, Reserve Bank of India
Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi (later Sir) Governor of the Punjab
S. V. Ramamurthy (later Sir) 1911 Acting governor of Bombay
Chintaman Dwarakanath Deshmukh (later Sir, CIE) 1918 1st 1st Indian Governor of Reserve Bank of India; Finance Minister of India
Muhammad Saleh Akbar Hydari Jr. (later Sir) 1918 1919 Governor of Assam
Sukumar Sen 1919 1921 Chief Election Commissioner of India
Subhas Chandra Bose 1920 1921 1921(Resignation) 4th
Y. N. Sukthankar (later CIE) 1921 Second Cabinet Secretary of India
Sudhansu Kumar Das 1921 Acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India
K. P. S. Menon 1922 1st First Foreign Secretary (India)
Nilakanta Mahadeva Iyer (later CIE) 1922
Binay Ranjan Sen (later CIE) 1922
N. R. Pillai (later Sir) 1923 First Cabinet Secretary of India
C. S. Venkatachari 1923 Chief Minister of Rajasthan
Girija Shankar Bajpai (later Sir) Governor of Maharashtra
S. Venkateswaran 1925
Annada Shankar Ray 1927
Jaipal Singh Munda 1927 1927 1928 (resignation) member Constituent Assembly
Birendra Narayan Chakraborty 1928
Subimal Dutt 1928 Foreign Secretary (India)
Dharma Vira 1931 Governor of West Bengal
S. Bhoothalingam 1931 Finance Secretary of India
Bhairab Dutt Pande Governor of West Bengal
Lallan Prasad Singh Governor of Assam
Lakshmi Kant Jha Indian Ambassador to United States
Haribhai M. Patel Defence Minister, Government of India
Abul Hasan Quraishi 1933 1933
MS Randhawa 1934 Chief Commissioner of Chandigarh
Zafrul Ahsan Lari 1934 1934
Maharaj Sri Nagendra Singh President of the International Court of Justice, The Hague
Aditya Nath Jha First Lieutenant Governor of Delhi
K.B. Lall Secretary, Defence, GOI
Tarlok Singh 1937 Member of the Planning Commission of India
V. K. Rao 1937 1938
Triloki Nath Kaul 1939 Ambassador, Foreign Secretary
Govind Narain 1939 Governor of Karnataka
H.V.R. Iyengar Governor of the Reserve Bank of India
S. Jagannathan Governor of the Reserve Bank of India
Chandrika Prasad Srivastava (later Sir) Secretary General of International Maritime Organization, London
Sushil Chandra Mishra 1940 Collector of Satna and Tikamgarh, Chairman of M.P.E.B
M A Quraishi 1941
Nirmal Kumar Mukarji 1941 1943 1st Rank from the Last Batch of ICS Governor of Punjab, Last ICS officer in the Indian Government-8th Home Secretary 13th Cabinet Secretary of India
Bhagwan Singh (later Captain) 1946 Indian High Commissioner to Fiji

References

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  1. ^ "HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE" (PDF).
  2. ^ Shaji, K. a (2017-08-20). "Honouring a life lost to racism". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2021-02-12.
  3. ^ "The tragic story of Pulicat Ratnavelu Chetty - ICS – Palghat 1879-1881". Retrieved 2021-02-12.
  4. ^ "Racism and it's[sic] 19th century martyr from South India -The story of Ratnavelu Chetti ICS -". Racism and it’s 19th century martyr from South India -The story of Ratnavelu Chetti ICS -. Retrieved 2021-02-12.
  5. ^ M.A. Sherif, Searching for Solace, A Biography of Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Interpreter of the Qur'an, Islamic Book Trust, Kuala Lumpur, 1994.
  6. ^ Sreekumar, G. (September 16, 2021). "Abdullah Yusuf Ali: Triumph and Tragedy". A Central Banker's Miscellany.