Modern Review May 1912

That if to this aggregate capital which may be termed the present maximum of the native stock of British India for a trade to Europe it became a practice to add capital belonging to private residents in Great Britain and transplanted to India for the purpose of forcing the productions of that country beyond the ability of its own means this would be the introduction of one of the first princip [...] " [The colonist] would as Far as possible put a stop to the influence of external competition by thoroughly extirpating and excluding the native rivals the obstacles to the full development of the capacities of the colonists would be removed by the creation of artificial condtions of existence of a more favourable character." p. t8). [...] The result was that the governing class— the Covenanted Civil Service—formed the only avenue to anything like power or distinction ; it gradually absorbed the control of the army as well as the civil administration of the country and it broke down at once and utterly in the time of trial. [...] Until the moral code of the Mussulman and the Hindoo is higher arc you of opinion that in the interests of India and its people they should not unless in exceptional cases be employed in responsible positions 7—Certainly I think the creed of caste and the creed of the Mussulman is a bad creed for persons entrusted with the administration of justice; II "1286. [...] I think politically the natives should not be appointed to those high situations." The witnesses wanted the wider eployment of the English agency in India and yet they gave evidence of the inefficiecy and incompetency of the then existing agency—that is of the members of the Covenanted Civil Service.