Indian civil servants includes five principal sub-categories of officials:
- Administrators of the native states of India
- Administrators of British India who came as servants of the East India Company before the formation of the ICS in 1853
- Members of the former Indian Civil Service (ICS) as well as the superior central and nationalised services in British India, who joined the civil service after 1853.[1]
- Dewans of the former Indian Princely States
- Employees of the Central Civil Services of the present Government of India, and respective Indian state governments including the
- Technocrats and Academic Administrators who have held official positions of the Government of India and the respective state governments of the Indian Union.[2][3]
For lists of civil servants of respective cadres see:
In popular culture[edit | edit source]
Since early 20th-century, Indian civil servants are colloquially called "babus",[4] while Indian bureaucracy is called "babudom", as in the "rule of babus", especially in Indian media.[5][6][7]
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References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Potter, David C. *India's Political Administrators: From ICS to IAS*. Oxford University Press, 1996.
- ↑ Jain, R. B. *Contemporary Issues in Indian Administration*. Vishal Publishing Co., 2003.
- ↑ Arora, Ramesh K., and Rajni Goyal. *Indian Public Administration: Institutions and Issues*. New Age International, 2007.
- ↑ "Yet to start work, Natgrid CEO highest paid babu". The Times of India. 23 August 2012. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
- ↑ Anand Parthasarathy (1–14 September 2001). "A barbed look at babudom: Will the typically British humour of Yes Minister work if transplanted to an Indian setting? Viewers of a Hindi satellite channel have a chance to find out". Frontline, India's National Magazine from the publishers of The Hindu.
Bureaucracy knows no bounds...
- ↑ "PM Modi tightens screws, gives babudom a new rush hour". The Times of India. 2 September 2014. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
- ↑ "Babu". Collins English Dictionary. Retrieved 17 September 2014.