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Political Service, either on pensionable or contract terms. They tended to be posted to districts in the southern parts of the country, either in quasi-administered territories or districts bordering
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Political Service had a reputation for recruiting those with a superior athletic record over academic record, though its officers generally had reasonable academic records as well. As a result, Sudan was said to be a country of Blacks governed by
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SPS officers could also be affected to special duties, such as setting up new departments. In addition, some were seconded or transferred to the Legal
Department to become full-time judges, while others went to the Education Department as teacher or academic administrators.
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Political Service. Some time it to the Governor-General's office closed for the last time on the afternoon of 31 December 1955, while others adopt 1 January 1956, the date of Sudan's independence.
77:(later Lord Cromer), the British agent and consul-general, wished to establish a corps of civilian administrators permanently whose only duty was to administer Sudan. The first batch of specially-recruited civilian administrators were appointed in 1901.
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Political Service had a reputation for being an elite service whose members took a genuine, if paternalistic interest in the welfare of the Sudanese.
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British Foreign Service and Colonial Administrative Service, while others took up a variety of professions. At least three became Members of Parliament.
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Political Service was by far the smallest: during the course of its entire existence, it comprised less than 400 members in total.
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between 1899 and 1955 (or 1956). They were distinguished from those members of the Sudan Civil
Service who served on military, departmental, or technical staffs.
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