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The I.C.S. was a service designed to secure certain things that were of undebatable value to India: order, first and always, and then the hard structural foundation upon which others might build, railways, roads, irrigation, land survey, town planning, control of famine and disease. Within this range its alien recruitment and its philosophy of detachment were themselves a strength.

— Cyril Radcliffe, 1st Viscount Radcliffe

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A review of The Men Who Ruled India, Volume Two, by Philip Mason

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