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Q89 (IAS/1999) History & Culture › National Movement (1857–1947) › Nationalist leaders Answer Verified

Which one of the following Indian leaders was dismissed by the British from the Indian Civil Service ?

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The leader dismissed from the Indian Civil Service was Surendranath Banerjee (option 2). Banerjee, who entered the ICS in 1871, was posted in Sylhet and was subsequently dismissed by the British; this forced him into public life and political organisation activity thereafter. Sources note that his dismissal occurred in the early 1870s and has been characterised as resulting from a minor procedural matter amid charges of racial discrimination, which he contested but could not reverse [1]. By contrast, Satyendranath Tagore was the first Indian to join the ICS, and Subhas Chandra Bose resigned/walked away from the service in 1921; Romesh Chunder Dutt served in the ICS and retired rather than being dismissed [1].

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  1. [1] https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Surendranath_Banerjee
  2. [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romesh_Chunder_Dutt
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