To call yourself a state, a government, you must have people you can deploy to carry out the functions of government. In an earlier column, i shared with readers the abysmal figures in India. The Indian problem is not too many officials; it is, instead, that we have too few to deal with the millions of rules we have put in place. The number of front-line, executive administrators (the IAS), police officers (IPS) and diplomats (IFS) per thousand Indians is so paltry that the Indian government resembles a medieval court more than a modern state. The Mughals probably ran India with as many civilian officials when the population of India was perhaps one-sixth what it is today.

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