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Scholar administrators are witness to an era

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September 4, 2022
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Memoirs written by the ICS officers have become classics and standard reference material for the concerned period’ because unlike professional historians, who base their research on archival material of the past, or journalists who file their reports on what they have seen or heard, a scholar- administrator writes from his lived experience. He is the witness to an era, and many a times an active participant in the making of history. Let me therefore begin this series with the writings of the officers who first broke the glass ceiling and joined the ranks of the administrative elite in our country.


THE DISTRICT JUDGE OF SATARA

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The first Indian to join the ICS officer in 1863 was Satyendra Nath Tagore. He was assigned to the Bombay Presidency and posted on the judicial side. He retired as the District Judge of Satara. He was a polyglot with proficiency over Bengali, Sanskrit, Persian, Latin, English and Marathi. Unlike his European batchmates, he never made it to the position of Chief Commissioner or a member of the Viceroy’s or Governor’s Council, but he engaged himself with his writings as well as his legal works. A man much ahead of his times, his wife and sisters were amongst the first Indian women to step out of the house. His wife was the first Indian lady to attend a reception at the Government House.

He wrote twelve books – nine in Bangla and three in English books. These included Sushila, (play,1867), BombayChitra (1888), Nabaratnamala, Strisvadhinata, Bauddha Dharma (1901), Amar Balikatan O Bombay Prays (1915), Bharatvarsiya Engrej (1908) and Raja Rammohan Roy earned considerable fame. His translated works Tilak’s Bhagavadgitabhasya, Kalidasa’s Meghaduta and Tukaram’s Abhanga Vani deserve special mention. His translation of the autobiography of Maharishi Devendranath Tagore is indeed a classic which talks about the spiritual fervour, intellectual resurgence and the challenge faced by the leaders of the Bengal renaissance – not just from the conservative sections of the Hindu society, but also from the British missionaries on the other. He also composed quite a few Brahmo and patriotic songs and for some time edited the Tattva Bodhini Patrika.

It is a matter of great satisfaction that that the Government of West Bengal has set up an exhibition on him, and his books, private papers and artefacts at the Netaji Subhas Bose Administrative Training Institute and named the Civil services Study Centre after him.

The Making of a Nation, a column exclusive to Blitz India, will take up writings by civil servants on and about their experiences with governance and observations on polity and society. The title is drawn from Surendra Nath Banerjea’s autobiography ‘A Nation in the Making.’ However, the column starts with the works of Satyendra Nath Tagore, the first Indian to join the ICS in 1863, sixteen years before SN Banerjee, RC Dutt and Behari Lal Gupta joined the league.

A NATION IN THE MAKING

The next three Indians to join the ICS in 1869 were SN Banerjea, RC Dutt and Behari Lal Gupta. The most prominent book of this period is A Nation in the Making by Sir Surendra Nath Banerjea, who was also called Surrender Not Banerjea. Banerjea was eased out of the Service on a technical issue, but he bore no grudges. In fact, he made a great name for himself as a teacher, editor, public intellectual and legislator.

His book documents the difficulties and challenges faced by the Indians who joined the ICS, the prejudice they faced and the deliberate attempts to keep them out from the core executive functions. It is from this book that one learns that the tradition of pan-India public lectures was started by him when he campaigned for the simultaneous conduct of the ICS examination in India as well as the UK. He was hosted in Poona by Mahratta, the newspaper founded by Bal Gangadhar Tilak – with whom later he had some differences for he was more in the mould of Ranade, in Lahore by Sardar Surinder Singh Majithia, the founder editor of the Tribune and by Sisir Kumar Ghosh, the editor of Amrita Bazar Patrika at Allahabad.

It is true that in Calcutta, the Bengalee – the newspaper founded and edited by him was in competition with Amrita Bazar’s English edition – but such was the spirit of the time, that when it came to voicing the demand for reforms in administration, especially the ICS, all the nationalists joined hands. SN Banerjea was elected as the President of the INC twice, and in his autobiography, he talks about taking fifteen days off to the hill station of Giridih in Bihar to work on the Presidential address for the Lahore session of the Congress.

(To be continued…)
— (Sanjeev Chopra superannuated as the Director of the LBS National Academy of Administration in 2021 after thirty-six years in the IAS. His forthcoming book We the People of the States of Bharat on the post-1947 restructuring of Indian states is being published later this year by Harper Collins.) </em.

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