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.
Technocrats and Academic Administrators who have held official positions of the Government of India and the respective state governments of the Indian Union.
For lists of civil servants of respective cadres see:
Since early 20th-century, Indian civil servants are colloquially called "
babus",[1] while Indian bureaucracy is called "babudom", as in the "rule of babus", especially in Indian media.[2][3][4]
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