Development of the civil services 1853-1935
- Open competition from 1853, Indian Civil Service Act 1861, Satyendranath Tagore first Indian to pass 1863, age limit cut to 19 in 1876 and Surendranath Banerjea's dismissal
- Aitchison and islington commissions
- Lee Commission 1924 on Indianisation and the Public Service Commission set up 1926 under Ross Barker
- Montford reforms on recruitment and the 1935 Act's Federal and Provincial Public Service Commissions