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૧૯૦૭] સરકારના કારોબારમાં હિંદીઓને વધારે હિંસ આપવાની યોજનાઓ. [ ૩૧૫
And it is our further will that so far as may be, our subjects of whatever race or creed, be freely and impartially admitted to ottices in our service, duties of which they may be qualified by their. education, ability, and integrity duly to discharge.
When by the blessing of Providence, internal tranquillity shall be restored, it is our earnest desire to stimulate, and to administer its Government for the benefit of all our subjects resident therein. In their prosperity will be our strength, in their contentment our security, and in their gratitude our best reward. And may the God of all power grant to us and to those in authority under us, strength to carry out these our wishes for the good of our people.
THE MAGNA CHARTA OF 1858. The Government of India recognizes the essential Justice of the claim that is put forward, they are convinced, that it is possible without neglecting the other interests and obligtaions involved to move gradually forward towards fulfilment, in no grudging spirit, of a pledge which the peoples of India are entitled to regard as inviolable.
[Letter from Sir Harold. Stuart Officiating Secretary to the Government of India, to Local Governments and administratiops, Simla, dated the 24th August 1904.]
The last point that remains for consideration under this head relates to speciul interests and minorities and in particular of Mahomed an Community. In this connection I am to invite attention to the observations made by His Excellency the Viceroy in reply to the address presented to him by a large and representative deputation on the 1st October 1906. The Government of India concur with the presenters of the address that neither on the Provincial nor in the Imperial Legislative Councils has the Mahomedan Community hitherto received a measure of representation commensurate with its members and pulitical and historical importance, and they desire to lay stress upon His Excellency's observation that any electorate representation in India would be doomed to mischievous failure which aimed at granting a personal enfranc. isement regardless of the belief and traditions of communities composing the population of this continent.
