Jagmohan has rightly observed that the members of the ICS were a product of the intellectual climate of the times and the educational culture of the British public schools and the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, which injected in them norms and values of a ‘great gentleman’. Motilal Nehru had said in a letter published in the Hindustan Times of 23 March 1926: ‘Strange as it may seem to some, I have found the sun-dried bureaucrat to be the most charming fellow in the world once he has put off the bureaucratic mask which is so indispensable a part of his official kit.’ (Jagmohan 2005;
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