§ MR. HENRY J. WILSON (York, W.R., Holmfirth)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for India if he will explain why, seeing that domiciled Europeans and Eurasians have in the past proved their fitness by meritorious and faithful services for the higher departmental appointments in India, it is contemplated to reserve such appointments for Europeans educated in England, as indicated by the recent Dispatches of the Government of India to the Secretary of State for India?
MR. CURZONI have been requested by my noble Friend to answer this Question on his behalf. In reply to this Question I can only say that I have no doubt that the Dispatches to which the hon. Member refers convey correctly the intentions of the Government with regard to the higher appointments to which they apply, though, in the absence of any definite reference to the Dispatches themselves, I cannot say whether their purport is correctly represented in the hon. Member's Question.