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.

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1855–1899

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

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

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.