01901nam a22001577a 4500999001900000008004100019100002800060245014100088260005200229300003600281520123800317773005201555906001801607942000701625952011101632  c525197d525197240214b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aChandra, Gautam 949952  aThe idea of competition: Contextualising the debate over changing methods of recruitment in the Indian civil service during company rule  aThe Indian Economic and Social History Review    a60(3), Jul-Sep, 2023: p.335-363  aPublic examinations were one of the great initiatives of the nineteenth-century Englishmen. The idea of a competitive examination, which was first implemented in the Indian civil service during East India Company rule, was shaped in post-industrial Britain by liberal-utilitarian thinkers like Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham, J. S. Mill, and others. The idea of competition, initially implemented in the field of economics, soon came to be applied to administration and governance. Studies on the Indian Civil Service have mainly focussed on its administrative and bureaucratic development. However, the historiography is silent about the role of English liberal-utilitarians, political-economists, and parliamentarians in applying the idea of competition to public services. In this context, this article tries to understand the concept of competition, as well as the ideological background and parliamentary debates behind the introduction of competitive examinations, and their impact on the socio-educational structure of colonial India during the three stages of foundation (1757–813), discourse (1814–53) and institutionalisation (1854 onwards). – Reproduced 

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