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America has lost much of the sheen it used to carry, even as China has curried favour with much of the world, writes Paarth Pande.

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“Above all, I would advise you to maintain to the utmost the impartiality and incorruptibility of administration. A civil servant cannot afford to and must not, take part in politics.”

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On Vallabhbhai Patel’s 146th birth anniversary, a look at how he strove to preserve the civil services.

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As Home Minister, Patel oversaw personally the functioning of the Services. Having secured “swarajya”, or self-rule, Patel urged the officers to move towards “surajya”, good governance. This, he declared, would be the new “IAS ethos”.