<P> Although no uniform was prescribed for the Indian Civil Service until the early twentieth century . The only civilians allowed a dress uniform by regulations were those who had distinct duties of a political kind to perform, and who are thereby brought into frequent and direct personal intercourse with native princes . </P> <P> This uniform included a blue coat with gold embroidery, a black velvet lining, collar and cuffs, blue cloth trousers with gold and lace two inches wide, a beaver cocked hat with black silk cockade and ostrich feathers, and a sword . </P> <P> The civil services were divided into two categories--covenanted and uncovenanted . The covenanted civil service consisted of only white British civil servants occupying the higher posts in the government . The uncovenanted civil service was solely introduced to facilitate the entry of Indians at the lower rung of the administration . </P> <P> After the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the pay scales were drawn up . Assistant Commissioners started out in their early twenties on around £ 300 a year . The governorship of a British province was the highest post an ICS officer could aspire for . The Governors at the top of the pyramid got £ 6,000 and allowances . All ICS officers retired on the same pension £ 1,000 . In the first decades of the twentieth century, the imbalance in salaries and emoluments was so great that 8,000 British officers earned £ 13,930,554, while 130,000 Indians in government service were collectively paid a total of £ 3,284,163 . </P>

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