Iron Lady wanted to be part of Indian Civil Service
April 30, 2008
Behold, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher considered joining erstwhile Indian Civil Service and serve the country.
Margaret Thatcher Foundation, quoted Margaret Thatcher, popularly known as ‘The Iron Lady’, told an interviewer on Yorkshire Television in 1985, “I had an ambition as a child. I told you all the missionaries used to come and people used to come from India. I had an ambition. I wanted to be part of the Indian Civil Service, because our Civil Service was best in the world. Now, we were brought up that Britain was the best in the world because she had standards of honesty and integrity and law. The best in the world and in the Indian Civil Service was part of our Civil Service and it was to do things for the Indians and it was to help them.
As fate would have it, Thatcher did not join the ICS. However she became the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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