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Deepak Gupta's The Steel Frame: A History of the IAS is placed within the Indian Civil Service tradition of diligent documentation and scholarship.

One of the defining characteristics of 'the men who ruled India' was the zeal with which they documented their life and times. Nowhere else in the world have civil servants contributed so massively to create a knowledge base of such extraordinary value that even today it is regularly mined by scholars and researchers to gain a better understanding

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