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252 Foreign Department: 6; all British except that one Attaché is an Indian.

Education Department: 8; one Assistant Secretary is an Indian.

Legislative Department: 7; only one Legal Assistant an Indian.

Army Department: 10; one Office Superintendent an Indian.

Public Works: 15; no Indian.

Commerce and Industry: 11; 3 Office Superintendents are Indians.

Railway Board: 4, no Indian.

Post Office and Telegraph Department: no Indian

Indo-European Trade Department: no Indian.

Geological Survey: 5; no Indian.

Botanical Department: 5; no Indian.

Archæological Survey: 9; one Indian.

Miscellaneous Appointments: 39; one Indian.

The Indian Legislative Council: —

Total strength 67, out of which 35, besides the Governor General are always officials, only one of which is an Indian; of the remaining 32, 28 are Indian members, including 3 nominated by the Government, i.e., a total of 20 out of 67.

Provincial Government: All Governors, Lieutenant Governors, and Chief Commissioners of Provinces are British.

In Provinces having Executive Councils of three or more, one is an Indian.

Secretaries and Heads of Departments are all Britishers. Of the large army of Under Secretaries and Assistant Secretaries, perhaps one in each Province is an Indian.

Services:

Army: No Indian is eligible to a commissioned rank.

Indian Civil Service: (on the first of April, 1913) out of a total cadre of 1318, only 46 were Indians.