: The India Fix: Is India's bureaucratic ‘steel frame’ fracturing into politicised, state units? #IndiaNEWS Welcome to The India Fix by Shoaib Daniyal, a newsletter on Indian politics. To get it
The India Fix: Is India's bureaucratic ‘steel frame’ fracturing into politicised, state units? #IndiaNEWS
Welcome to The India Fix by Shoaib Daniyal, a newsletter on Indian politics. To get it in your inbox every Monday, sign up here. Have feedback, interesting links or memes? Send them to shoaib@scroll.in.In 1922, British prime minister David Lloyd George called the Indian Civil Service the “steel frame� that held up the British Empire in India. Two decades later in 1946, senior Congressman Vallabhbhai Patel, as a member of the interim government straddling the end of British rule and the start of self government, held a conference of premiers (as chief ministers were then called) to ensure that this “steel frame� continued even after the British had left. In one of the seeming ironies of history, the Congress that had long railed against the Raj’s permanent, centralised bureaucracy would retain it as a bulwark against the chaos of independence and partition.But did Sardar Patel only delay the inevitable? An elite bureaucracy spanning the entire country has been a major part of the story of independent India. However, independent India also seems to have changed the idea to a point where it might soon be unrecognisable to both Patel and George.The latest exhibit: the Modi government’s desperate attempt to put in rules which ensure that the Centre has exclusive control...Read more
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