Constitutional and administrative development 1858-1947
Development of the civil services 1853-1935
Concepts to cover
- 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 Commission 1886 (imperial, provincial, subordinate services; Statutory Civil Service dropped) and Islington Commission 1912-15
- 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