REVENUE AND AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT: All Secretaries down to the Superintendent of the Office: British. (Total strength, 7.) FINANCE DEPARTMENT: 21; all British except that one Assistant Secretary is an Indian, and one Superintendent is an Indian. 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. SURVEY: 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. _Indian Medical Service_: Little over 5 per cent. are Indians. _In Provincial Legislative Councils_ having very restricted powers of legislation, the _elected_ Indians are in a minority everywhere. FIGURES ABOUT EDUCATION AND LITERACY: (Figures taken from the Year Book of 1914) Area, 1,773,168 square miles. Population, 315,132,537. Universities in British India, 6. Number of High Schools for males 1273 Number of High Schools for females 144 Primary schools for males 113,955 i.e., not even 1 for every 10 miles. Primary schools for females 13,694 Literally. Males, 106 per 1000, i.e., about 10½ per cent. Females, only 10 per 1000, i.e., about 1 per cent. All these figures are taken from the Indian Year Book, published by the Times of India Press, Bombay, for the years 1914 and 1915. IV THE FLOGGING OF POLITICAL PRISONERS (An extract from _New India_, a paper edited by Mrs. Annie Besant.)