The elite higher civil service of the British Empire in British-ruled India. The ICS oversaw all government activity in the 250 districts that comprised India. At first, almost all of the top members of the ICS were British, but eventually the service attempted to “Indianize” in order to appease those calling for Indian Independence. In The Inheritance of Loss, the judge is appointed to a position in the ICS overseeing the district courts.
Indian Civil Service (ICS) Quotes in The Inheritance of Loss
The The Inheritance of Loss quotes below are all either spoken by Indian Civil Service (ICS) or refer to Indian Civil Service (ICS). For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Note: all page numbers and citation info for the quotes below refer to the Grove Press edition of The Inheritance of Loss published in 2006.
Chapter 8
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Jemubhai looked at his father, a barely educated man venturing where he should not be, and the love in Jemubhai's heart mingled with pity, the pity with shame.
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