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Raj era ICS was much smaller, Congress and Nehru created a lot of the bureaucracy
by selimthegrim 4y ago
Raj era ICS was much smaller, Congress and Nehru created a lot of the bureaucracy
- winter_blue 4y agoDo you have any stuff I could read up on this?
- cubancigar11 4y agoYou are, I am sorry to say, mistaken. The Raj era was huge. There is very old article (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1908/10/the-new-nationalist-movement-in-india/304893/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1908/10/the-new...). <blockquote>But the government is as complete a bureaucracy as that of Russia.</blockquote> The British Raj kept creating more and more bureaucracy paid for taxes exacted by causing famines, increasing in frequency and intensity. This system was inherited by Nehru and Congress. They were socialists so they increased bureaucracy but they didn't increase corruption - independent India has not seen a famine caused by taxes even in the direst of times.