The Indian Education Service or Indian Educational Service (IES) formed part of the
British Raj
The British Raj ( ; from Hindustani language, Hindustani , 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') was the colonial rule of the British The Crown, Crown on the Indian subcontinent,
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between 1896 and 1924, when overseas recruitment ceased. It was an administrative organisation running educational establishments in
British India
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, largely staffed by Europeans, that was crucial to
Macaulay's model of colonial education . It replaced a previous system of provincial administrations by a uniform all-India service.
The IES was formed based on the recommendations of the 1886 Public Service Commission, as part of the Superior Education Service, which comprised also the Provincial Education Service. In practice the IES was mostly British, and the Provincial Education Service was staffed by Indians, with substantial differentials of pay between the services. As a delayed consequence of the Islington Commission of 1912 on public services in India, the existing distinction between the IES and Provincial Education Service officials began to be dismantled in the early 1920s.
Revival
There have been multiple proposals to revive the IES even in independent India. Most recently, the
Bharatiya Janata Party
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; , ) is a political party in India and one of the two major List of political parties in India, Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. BJP emerged out from Syama Prasad Mukherjee's ...
central government proposed to revive the IES, as per comments in 2016 on its upcoming draft of
National Education Policy 2020.
[https://www.mhrd.gov.in/sites/upload_files/mhrd/files/nep/Inputs_Draft_NEP_2016.pdf ] The National Education Policy was adopted in 2020.
See also
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:Indian Education Service officers
Notes
History of education in India
Government of British India
1896 establishments in India
1924 disestablishments in India
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