The Gazette of India. October 6 1917 (Part VI)

After the Mutiny after the Crown took the direct control of the Government of India the pledge of 1833 was repeated and reaffirmed by the Proclamation of the Queen and in the House of Commons that Indian subjects of. [...] With the altered state of things which the war has brought about the recognition of the comradeship of Indians and Europeans in arms the recognition of the free contributions and the loyal services rendered during the war and above all with a full recognition of the fart that the present system has outgrown it self and must be altered so that the Government shall be made responsible to the pe [...] Sasiri made an appeal to them yesterday I wish if I may to support it 1 would earnestly ask them to look at the question from the point of view that the honour of the English sovereign the honour of the English Parliament the honour of the English nation is involved in the fulfilment of the pledges which have been given to us during the last eighty vears Many of your own statesmen have said [...] The views of the Commission on the point are perhaps entitled to the greater respect because they are in complete accordance with the views of previous Commissions and also with the views of the Government of India and of the Secretary of State for many years. [...] may be urged that the whole of this assumes that the result of simultaneous examinations would be to destroy the British element in the service: I do not say that would be the result but I do Say that it -is one of the possibilities which the Government of India have to 'contemplate and this question becomes more important if the cumulatiVe effect of the various Resolutions proposed.