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.

1855–1899 Name Year of examination Year of joining Year of resignation/ disqualification Rank Final postingSatyendranath Tagore1863186443rd First Indian to qualify for the Indian Civil Service First Grade Judge and Sessions Judge of Satara. Retired from the Indian Civil Service on 15 January 1897.Romesh Chunder Dutt186918713rdOfficiating Commissioner of Orissa; later Dewan, Baroda. Retired from the Indian Civil Service on 1 August 1897.Behari Lal Gupta1869187114thSessions judge, Bengal; later chief minister, BarodaSurendranath Banerjee (later Sir)186918711871 (Disqualification) 38thMinister in the Dyarchy Cabinet in Bengal, 1921–1926Sripad Babaji Thakur1869 But gave the final examination in 1870.187239th The first I.C.S from Maharashtra.Sessions Judge of Shikarpur. Died on 22 July 1889 at Shikarpur.Anundoram Borooah1870187238th The first I.C.S from Assam/North-EastDistrict Magistrate and Collector in BengalKrishna Govinda Gupta (later Sir)18711873Commissioner, Bengal; later member, Secretary of State's Council, UKBrajendranath De1873187517thMagistrate and Collector of Hooghly, (1910); also Commissioner (offg.), Burdwan, Bengal (1905)Cursetjee Rustomjee1874187610thDistrict and Sessions Judge, 1st Grade. Retired from the Indian Civil Service in November 1911. Died in 1941.Pulicat Ratanvelu Chetty187518765th The first I.C.S from Madras Presidency.Acting Assistant Collector of Palghaut. Died of "Gun Accident" on 28 September 1881 aged 25 years.Maharajadhiraj Sir Rameshwar Singh Bahadur187818851885 {appointed a Member of the Legislative Council of Bengal}Magistrate and Collector of Darbhanga, Chhapra, and Bhagalpur.Mancherji Pestonji Khareghat1882188426thJudge and Sessions Judge, 2nd Grade of Ratnagiri. Retired from the Indian Civil Service on 1 September 1910.Lokendranath Palit (Brother of Satyendranath Palit)1884188632ndDistrict and Sessions Judge, 3rd Grade of Bankura. Resigned from the Indian Civil Service on 16 May 1913.Perungavur Rajagopalachari (later Diwan Bahadur and Sir)18861888Chairman of the Madras Legislative CouncilBasanta Kumar Mullick18871889Puisne Judge of the Patna High CourtAtul Chunder Dutt (Nephew of Romesh Chunder Dutt)1887188938thDistrict and Sessions Judge of South Arcot. Died of "Pneumonia" on 28 June 1915 aged 45 years.Satyendranath Palit (Brother of Lokendranath Palit)1891189328thAssistant Magistrate and Collector of Purnea. Died in 1896.Birendra Chandra Sen1891189331stCommissioner, Bihar and Orissa. Retired from the Indian Civil Service on 17 November 1928.Albion Rajkumar Banerjee (later Sir)18941895Prime Minister of Kashmir; Dewan of MysoreAbdullah Yusuf Ali18941896Resigned in 19147thKanpur?Atul Chandra Chatterjee (later Sir)18961897Ghazanfur Ali Khan

1900–1947 Name Year of examination Year of joining Year of resignation/ disqualification Rank Final postingSarat Kumar Ghosh (later Sir)19031903Chief Justice of Jaipur & of KashmirGurusaday Dutt19051905First Indian to come first in any part of the Open Competitive Services examination; 1st (in the 2nd Part)Secretary, Local Self Government and Public HealthBenegal Narsing Rau (later Sir)19081909Prime Minister of KashmirBenegal Rama Rau (later Sir)Governor, Reserve Bank of IndiaChandulal Madhavlal Trivedi (later Sir)Governor of the PunjabS. V. Ramamurthy (later Sir) 1911 Acting governor of BombayChintaman Dwarakanath Deshmukh (later Sir, CIE)19181st1st Indian Governor of Reserve Bank of India; Finance Minister of IndiaMuhammad Saleh Akbar Hydari Jr. (later Sir)19181919Governor of AssamSukumar Sen19191921Chief Election Commissioner of IndiaSubhas Chandra Bose192019211921(Resignation)4thY. N. Sukthankar (later CIE)1921 Second Cabinet Secretary of IndiaSudhansu Kumar Das1921 Acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of IndiaK. P. S. Menon19221stFirst Foreign Secretary (India)Nilakanta Mahadeva Iyer (later CIE)1922Binay Ranjan Sen (later CIE)1922N. R. Pillai (later Sir)1923First Cabinet Secretary of IndiaC. S. Venkatachari1923Chief Minister of RajasthanGirija Shankar Bajpai (later Sir)Governor of Maharashtra S. Venkateswaran 1925Annada Shankar Ray1927Jaipal Singh Munda192719271928 (resignation)member Constituent AssemblyBirendra Narayan Chakraborty1928Subimal Dutt1928Foreign Secretary (India)Dharma Vira1931Governor of West BengalS. Bhoothalingam1931 Finance Secretary of IndiaBhairab Dutt Pande19381939Governor of West BengalLallan Prasad Singh19351936Governor of AssamLakshmi Kant Jha 19351936Indian Ambassador to United StatesHaribhai M. PatelDefence Minister, Government of IndiaAbul Hasan Quraishi19331933MS Randhawa1934Chief Commissioner of ChandigarhZafrul Ahsan Lari19341934Maharaj Sri Nagendra SinghPresident of the International Court of Justice, The HagueAditya Nath Jha19351936First Lieutenant Governor of DelhiK.B. LallSecretary, Defence, GOITarlok Singh1937Member of the Planning Commission of IndiaV. K. Rao19371938Triloki Nath Kaul1939 Ambassador, Foreign SecretaryGovind Narain1939Governor of KarnatakaH.V.R. IyengarGovernor of the Reserve Bank of IndiaS. JagannathanGovernor of the Reserve Bank of IndiaChandrika Prasad Srivastava (later Sir)Secretary General of International Maritime Organization, LondonSushil Chandra Mishra1940Collector of Satna and Tikamgarh, Chairman of M.P.E.BM A Quraishi1941Nirmal Kumar Mukarji194119431st Rank from the Last Batch of ICSGovernor of Punjab, Last ICS officer in the Indian Government-8th Home Secretary 13th Cabinet Secretary of India Bhagwan Singh (later Captain)1946Indian High Commissioner to FijiChandra Shekhar Jha1932 1932

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