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Report On The Inspection Of Chiefs College 1939PDF 21
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inspections of the Daly College in which a Political Officer
has ae net Troon associated it has always been emphasised that his part
ig to report on whether the College is fulfilling its primary function of
provision of the proper training of future Rulers of Indian States and of
others who may be expected to exercise an influence on their administrative
progress and development. While this will still continue to be an important
function of the College it is modified to the extent that it will in future
have to fit itself in with the development. and reorganisation of the Tnstitu.
tion on Public School lines, to which policy the Conneil commitied itself
at the meeting held on the 7th of September 1938 It may well be that
the new policy will develop the importance of the College as a training
ground for Central India Chiefs and Thakors and particularly for the
latter to whom it may offer preparation for a career outside the ancestral
acres. The interest of the political officer should therefore wax rather than
wane and I do not think one should be held guilty of uttering a truism in
saying that without the closest co-operation between the Principal and
the Political Officers of Central India the bright ideas that we hare for
the future will remain no more than pious hopes.
2. It has been customary for the Principal to address Political Agents
each year for new recruits from the States and if the latter are to exercise
their undoubted influence to this end they must at least be satisfied that
they are persuading a parent to do what is best for his child. For example I
have recently been in a position where a little argument would have obtained
a recruit but in the face of parential desire to make the boy a soldier I
had no option but to agree that the Daly College was not the best stepping
stone to this desirable end. .
8. I am informed that the school could accommodate 150 pupils, The
present number is 78 of which the details are :—.
Two Ruling Princes.
Three Heirs Apparent of Ruling Princes,
Two Chiefs of lesser States,
Six Heirs Apparent of lesser States,
Six important Thakors,
Nine Heirs Apparent of important Thakors,
Fifty other knmars.
There are in Central India, including Gwalior, 60 States of which 29
are salute States. There are also 56 estates enjoying an income of
Rs. 10,000 or more per annum and who therefore might be expected to he
able to cope with the College fees for at least one child,
Jt is apparent from cures that a considerable number of
be the above fig be to some extent due to its
boys must be going elsewhere. This may 1
present unpopularity with Rulers but it must also be because the Col, ege
ails to provide an education which might place a boy in the Army, the
Royal Indian Navy or the Air Force. This last defect is no doubt one
that will engage the earnest consideration of the College authorities under
the reorganisation and calls for no more comment from me.
4. At this most critical stage in its history I feel that the best service
that can be done to the College is to leave the new Principal jfree and
unfettered to carry out the various reforms that have a ree y been the subject
of much discussion. If therefore I refer to certain defects which must be
. rae . ‘ hasise the need as well as the
well known it is only with a view to ene Thakors into line so that they
called upon to occupy in India that is changt . : y
before ont eyes. Under the present organisation this must be difficult.