List of Indian members of the Indian Civil Service

This page contains a list of British Indians who joined the Indian Civil Service (ICS) in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and opted for India at partition in 1947. It does not include ICS officers who opted for Pakistan, and is not an exhaustive list.

1861-1899

Batches	Name	Year of Examination	Year of Joining	Year of Resignation/Disqualification	Rank
1861-1899	Satyendranath Tagore	1863	1864		4th	First Indian to join the ICS; retired as Judge of Satara
1870-1879, 1st Batch, (examination taken before 1870)	Romesh Dutt	1869	1871		3rd	Commissioner (offgt.) of Orissa; later Dewan, Baroda
	Behari Lal Gupta	1869	1871			Sessions Judge, Bengal; later Chief Minister, Baroda
	Surendranath Banerjee (later Sir)	1869	1871	1871 (Disqualification)		Minister in the Dyarchy Cabinet in Bengal, 1921-1926
	Ananda Ram Baruah	1870	1872		District Magistrate and Collector in Bengal	The first ICS from Assam/North-East
	Krishna Govinda Gupta (later Sir)	1871	1873			Commissioner, Bengal; later member, Secretary of State's Council, UK
	Brajendranath De	1873	1875			Magistrate and Collector of Hooghly, Bengal; also Commissioner (offg.), Burdwan
	Perungavur Rajagopalachari (later Diwan Bahadur and Sir)	1886	1888			Chairman of the Madras Legislative Council
	Basanta Kumar Mullick	1887	1889			Puisne Judge of the Patna High Court
	Albion Rajkumar Banerjee (later Sir)	1894	1895			Prime Minister of Kashmir; Dewan of Mysore
	Dewan Tek Chand	1894	1895			Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner of Punjab Province, Member of the Imperial Legislative Council (1915-1916)
	Atul Chandra Chatterjee (later Sir)	1896	1897

1900-1947

Batches	Name	Year of Examination	Year of Joining	Year of Resignation/Disqualification/Death	Rank	Final Posting
	Sarat Kumar Ghosh (later Sir)	1903	1903
	Gurusaday Dutt	1905	1905		1st				Benegal Narsing Rau (later Sir)	1908	1909			Prime Minister of Kashmir
	Benegal Rama Rau (later Sir)					Governor, Reserve Bank of India
	Chandulal Madhavlal Trivedi (later Sir)					Governor of the Punjab
	Muhammad Saleh Akbar Hydari Jr. (later Sir)	1918	1919			Governor of Assam
	Sukumar Sen	1919	1921			Chief Election Commissioner of India
	Subhas Chandra Bose	1920	1921	1921(Resignation)	4th
	Y. N. Sukthankar (later CIE)		1921			Second Cabinet Secretary of India
	K. P. S. Menon					First Foreign Secretary (India)
	Nilakanta Mahadeva Iyer (later CIE)		1922
	Binay Ranjan Sen (later CIE)		1922
	N. R. Pillai (later Sir)		1923			First Cabinet Secretary of India
	C. S. Venkatachari		1923			Chief Minister of Rajasthan
	Girija Shankar Bajpai (later Sir)					Governor of Maharashtra
	Annada Shankar Ray	1927
	Birendra Narayan Chakraborty	1928
	Subimal Dutt	1928				Foreign Secretary (India)
	Dharma Vira		1931			Governor of West Bengal
	Bhairab Dutt Pande					Governor of West Bengal
	Lallan Prasad Singh		Aditya Nath Jha Last posting First Lt. Governor of Delhi			Governor of Assam
	Lakshmi Kant Jha					Indian Ambassador to USA
	Haribhai M. Patel					Defence Minister, Government of India
	MS Randhawa		1934			Chief Commissioner of Chandigarh
	Maharaj Sri Nagendra Singh					President of the International Court of Justice, The Hague
	K.B. Lall					Secretary, Defence, GOI
	Tarlok Singh		1937			Member of the Planning Commission of India
	Govind Narain		1939			Governor of Karnataka
	H.V.R. Iyengar					Governor of the Reserve Bank of India
	S. Jagannathan					Governor of the Reserve Bank of India
	Chandrika Prasad Srivastava (later Sir)					Secretary General of International Maritime Organisation, London
	Nirmal Kumar Mukarji	1941	1943			Governor of Punjab
	Bhagwan Singh (later Captain)		1946			Indian High Commissioner to Fiji