# 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 posting |
| Satyendranath Tagore | 1863 | 1864 | | | Judge, Satara, First Indian ever, who qualified as well as served Imperial Civil Service. |
| Romesh Dutt | 1869 | 1871 | | | Officiating Commissioner 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 | | The first ICS from Assam/North-East | District Magistrate and Collector in Bengal |
| Krishna Govinda Gupta (later Sir) | 1871 | 1873 | | | Commissioner, Bengal; later member, Secretary of State's Council, UK |
| Brajendranath De | 1873 | 1875 | | 17th | Magistrate and Collector of Hooghly, (1910); also Commissioner (offg.), Burdwan, Bengal (1905) |
| Maharajadhiraj Sir Rameshwar Singh Bahadur | 1878 | 1885 | 1885 {appointed a Member of the Legislative Council of Bengal} | | Magistrate and Collector of Darbhanga, Chhapra, and Bhagalpur. |
| 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 |
| Atul Chandra Chatterjee (later Sir) | 1896 | 1897 | | | |
| Pulicat Ratnavelu Chetty | 1876 | 1876 | 1881 | first from madras presidency | Death in palakkad age 25, Acting Head Assistant Collector, Malabar |
| Abdullah Yusuf Ali | 1894 | 1896 | Resigned in 1914 | Ranked seventh. | Kanpur? |

## 1900–1947

| Name | Year of examination | Year of joining | Year of resignation/ disqualification | Rank | Final posting |
| Sarat Kumar Ghosh (later Sir) | 1903 | 1903 | | | Chief Justice of Jaipur & of Kashmir |
| Gurusaday Dutt | 1905 | 1905 | | First Indian to come first in any part of the Open Competitive Services examination; 1st (in the 2nd Part) | Secretary, Local Self Government and Public Health |
| 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 |
| S. V. Ramamurthy (later Sir) | 1911 | | | | Acting governor of Bombay |
| Chintaman Dwarakanath Deshmukh (later Sir, CIE) | 1918 | | | 1st | 1st Indian Governor of Reserve Bank of India; Finance Minister of India |
| 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 |
| Sudhansu Kumar Das | | 1921 | | | Acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India |
| K. P. S. Menon | | 1922 | | 1st | 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 |
| S. Venkateswaran | 1925 | | | | |
| Annada Shankar Ray | 1927 | | | | |
| Jaipal Singh Munda | 1927 | 1927 | 1928 (resignation) | | member Constituent Assembly |
| Birendra Narayan Chakraborty | 1928 | | | | |
| Subimal Dutt | 1928 | | | | Foreign Secretary (India) |
| Dharma Vira | | 1931 | | | Governor of West Bengal |
| S. Bhoothalingam | 1931 | | | Finance Secretary of India |
| Bhairab Dutt Pande | | | | | Governor of West Bengal |
| Lallan Prasad Singh | | | | | Governor of Assam |
| Lakshmi Kant Jha | | | | | Indian Ambassador to United States |
| Haribhai M. Patel | | | | | Defence Minister, Government of India |
| Abul Hasan Quraishi | 1933 | 1933 | | |
| MS Randhawa | | 1934 | | | Chief Commissioner of Chandigarh |
| Zafrul Ahsan Lari | 1934 | 1934 | | |
| Maharaj Sri Nagendra Singh | | | | | President of the International Court of Justice, The Hague |
| Aditya Nath Jha | | | | | First Lieutenant Governor of Delhi |
| K.B. Lall | | | | | Secretary, Defence, GOI |
| Tarlok Singh | | 1937 | | | Member of the Planning Commission of India |
| V. K. Rao | 1937 | 1938 | | | |
| Triloki Nath Kaul | | 1939 | | | Ambassador, Foreign Secretary |
| 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 Organization, London |
| Sushil Chandra Mishra | 1940 | | | | Collector of Satna and Tikamgarh, Chairman of M.P.E.B |
| M A Quraishi | 1941 | | | |
| Nirmal Kumar Mukarji | 1941 | 1943 | | 1st Rank from the Last Batch of ICS | Governor of Punjab, Last ICS officer in the Indian Government-8th Home Secretary 13th Cabinet Secretary of India |
| Satyendra Mohan Dhar Esq. (later CIE) | 1942 | | | 2nd in ICS Examination in the batch of Subhas Chandra Bose | Secretary to the Government of Bihar in Education, Development and Employment Departments |
| Bhagwan Singh (later Captain) | | 1946 | | | Indian High Commissioner to Fiji |