Thatcher wanted to join Indian Civil Service

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher wanted to join the erstwhile Indian Civil Service and serve the country.

Thatcher, also 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 the best in the world,'' newly released papers by the Margaret Thatcher Foundation quoted her as saying.

She added: ''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 the Indian Civil Service was part of our Civil Service and it was the best in the world and it was to do things for the Indians and it was to help them.''

''I said: 'I thinnk, Daddy, if I manage to get to university, it was a fantastic privilege in those days, a fantastic privilege If I manage to get to university, I think I'd like to go in the Indian Civil Service, because I will be able to do something for them.''

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