Before the Commission sat, Indians and Europeans used to work side by side in the superior graded service of the Department, and until quite recently they had drawn the same pay.

The Commission abolished this equality and comradeship and put the Europeans and the Indians into separate pens.

The European pen was named the Indian Educational Service, and the native pen was named the Provincial Educational Service.

Into the Provincial Service were put Indians holding lower posts than any held by Europeans and with no prospect of ever rising to the _maximum_ salaries hitherto within their reach.

To pretend that equality was maintained under the new scheme is idle, and the grievance thus created has caused a bitterness which is not allayed by the fact that the Commission created analogous grievances in other branches of the public service.