§ MR. MCCALLUM (Paisley)To ask the Secretary of State for India whether, having regard to the fact that only one Native of India has during the past seventeen years been appointed to the Indian educational service in Bengal, he will consider the claims of highly qualified graduates of English Universities who are Natives of India, and now serving in the provincial service, to promotion to the Indian education service.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Morley.) The Indian educational service, as distinguished from the provincial service, is intended to supply what is at present considered to be the minimum of European appointments necessary to ensure the due progress of education in India, and it is therefore intended to be recruited mainly from Europeans, and must for the present continue so to be recruited. I may explain that it differs from the provincial service only in so far as its pay and other conditions are fixed with reference to the scale necessary to attract Europeans, which is naturally higher than that required to secure Indians serving in their own country.
†See (4) Debates, clxvii., 1004.