Questioning the Role of the Indian Administrative Service in National Integration

After Independence, the Indian Administrative Service was expected to promote national integration, from a social as well as a spatial point of view. Yet, despite the reservation policy, this elite body lacks representativeness. The partisanship of IAS officers along caste, religious and ethnic line...

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Main Author: Dalal Benbabaali
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud 2008-09-01
Series:South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/samaj/633