Indian Political Service
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The Indian Political Service was a department of the Indian Civil Service during the British Raj
.
The political officers assigned to the service - many of whom were British Army
and British Indian Army
officers on secondment - were responsible for the civil administration of frontier districts, and also served as British agents to rulers of Princely states.
Employees of the political service were predominantly racially European, although small numbers of Indians were employed. Following Indian independence in 1947 a small number of British officers continued to serve as employees of the Union of India.
British Raj
British Raj was the British rule in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947; The term can also refer to the period of dominion...
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The political officers assigned to the service - many of whom were British Army
British Army
The British Army is the land warfare branch of Her Majesty's Armed Forces in the United Kingdom. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdom of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. The new British Army incorporated Regiments that had already existed in England...
and British Indian Army
British Indian Army
The British Indian Army, officially simply the Indian Army, was the principal army of the British Raj in India before the partition of India in 1947...
officers on secondment - were responsible for the civil administration of frontier districts, and also served as British agents to rulers of Princely states.
Employees of the political service were predominantly racially European, although small numbers of Indians were employed. Following Indian independence in 1947 a small number of British officers continued to serve as employees of the Union of India.