But if it has become more difficult to attract to it the right type of Indians, it has either become almost as difficult to attract the right type of Europeans, or the influence they are able to exercise has materially diminished.

In the first place, their numbers are quite inadequate.

Out of about 500 Europeans actually engaged in educational work in India less than half are in the service of the State.

Many of them are admittedly very capable men, and not a few possess high University credentials.

But so long as the Indian Educational Service is regarded and treated as an inferior branch of the public service, we cannot expect its general tone to be what it should be in view of the supreme importance of the functions it has to discharge.