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Must have been a good father: his 4 sons include 2 IAS officers, 1 IFS officer (Former Foreign Secy Kanwal Sibal) and Kapil Sibal (Sr. Adv, and who by his own admission had gotten into the IAS)
most IFS officers post 1947 until about 1965 were sons of erstwhile maharajas
all ICS officers became IAS officers, thus they carried on the tradition of working for their political masters
the modern craze for UPSC actually started sometime in early 1990s, before that it was just another exam which only the well connected or well heeled sat for
Then from the 1990s-2000s the population boom took care that it became a craze
have a look at what PK thinks about higher bureaucracy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Uq0y71yr6A
If you look at the secretaries who retired in late 80s and early 90s many of them were inducted into the service, so were good, some were bad and some were terrible. There are certain locations in Delhi where you would find houses build by these bureaucrats which now are worth more than 50-70 crores, on little enquiry you will come to know that the land was allotted to them when DDA was formed at pittance. Many of their sons and daughters inter married and have one child in the civil services, one in judiciary, one in export business and one in property. Just like the landed gentry of 17th century England these families have tentacles in all the vital courses of the state. Central civil services has been the tool of preserving the generational wealth of certain ashrafiyas around Delhi. There was a thread on LI on the deep state, these ashrafiyas just a km away from LBZ are the true deep state.