How did Lord Cornwallis regularise civil service in India?

In my limited knowledge before cornwallis their was rampant corruption in the civil service . Imp steps taken by him to counter this were:- 1. He tightened the rules for accepting gifts and other rewards from nawabs etc. 2. read more

Lord Cornwallis was a British army officer, civil administrator, and diplomat. His career was primarily military in nature, including a series of well-known campaigns during the War of American Independence from 1776 to 1781 that culminated in his surrender at Yorktown. read more

Later on, the civil services were reformed and modernised by Lord Cornwallis and hence he is called the “Father of Indian Civil Service”. Cornwallis realised that in order to consolidate the British rule in India, it was very important to organise the civil services. read more