LETTER XXIIL TRAINING OF I.C.S., 

 GOKHALE, AND FAREWELL BANQUET 



SIMLA, June i8th, 1913. 



I HAD been but a short time in India when I be- 

 came greatly impressed by the fact that whilst 

 British officers and English commercial men almost 

 invariably get on very well with Indians, there 

 is not infrequently ill-feeling between Indians 

 and members of the Indian Civil Service. It is 

 quite a common thing to find Indian gentlemen 

 welcomed by English regiments and a well- 

 marked spirit of bonne camaraderie existing be- 

 tween the regiment and their Indian friends. 



I noticed also that English commercial men 

 speak of Indians as " quite a good sort and all 

 right if you take them the right way." 



Doubtless the fact that neither British officers 

 nor commercial men have any direct share in the 

 government of the country has much to do with it, 

 but that alone hardly furnishes a sufficient reason 

 for the difference. 



I have come to the conclusion that such friction 

 as exists is partly due to the lack of proper training 

 of young officials when they first take up their 

 duties. 



I claim some knowledge of the subject because I 

 instituted a system under which a number of 

 young I.C.S. were called up in turn from the 



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