Bureaucracy or Colonial legacy?

The bureaucracy as a system bears an uncanny resemblance to the colonial administrative structure. Hence it has not made a radical break with the past however the bureaucracy is being articulated into a democratic set up by the nation state.The democratic process demanded service to the masses but the bureaucracy paradoxically works through the Janus faced administration through a nation sate which has been largely modelled upon the colonial predecessor and other colonial structures. But the violence that followed freedom partition movements laid a necessity to make bureaucracy work through the colonial model since as a critic observes," Given the rising tide of communal violence, the government needed a system it could rely on-one that could enforce law and order". But perhaps as Shashi Tharoor Former UN diplomat, noted ,'Bureaucracy is [...] simultaneously the most crippling of Indian diseases and the highest of Indian art-forms'. Continuity was the watchword and the civil service continued in the tradition of the colonial governance. Perhaps among the many factors that ail the system one cannot dismiss the unbroken continuity between colonial structures of the past and their shadows upon the political/bureaucratic structures of the nation-state.