Indira and Sanjay used IAS officers to rule the country just as their British predecessors had used the ICS. She went to Loreto Convent, Tara Hall in a city that was the de facto capital of British India. He is the darling of the left-leaning South Asian elite, many of whom are children of IAS officers. After the British left, Mamdani’s IAS grandfather lived in those very bungalows the British built and imposed socialism on the country. Mamdani wants the city government to run these stores in much the same way IAS officers like his grandfather ran steel mills and airlines.