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90 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
Mian Ghulam Kadir Muhammad Shahban on the same date, and in the reply of His Excellency the Commanderin-Chief to the debates in the Council of State on the Honourable Mr. Sushil Kumar Roy Chaudhary’s Resolution regarding military training for Indians on the 21st February 1938 and on the Honourable Mr. P. N. Sapru’s Resolution on the recruitment of all classes to the Indian Army in April 1935.
This was followed by an interpellation on 6th February
1939, when the below mentioned question was asked :—
Recruitment to the Indian Army*
Q. 129: Mr. S. Satyamurti : Will the Defence Secretary be pleased to state:
(a) Whether Government have since the last answer on this question reconsidered the question of recruiting to the Indian Army from all provinces and from all castes and communities ;
(b) Whether they have come to any conclusion ;
(c) Whether Government will categorically state the reasons as to why other provinces and communities are not allowed to serve in the army ; and
(d) What are the tests by which they have come to the conclusion that other provinces and other communities than those from whom recruitment is made to the Indian Army to-day cannot come up to the standard of efficiency required of the Indian Army ?
Mr. C.M.G. Ogilvie :
(a) No.
(b) Does not arise.
(c) and (d) The reasons have been categorically stated in my replies to starred questions Nos. 1060 and
1086 of 15th September 1938, No. 1162 of 20th September 1938 and No. 1402 of 23rd November
1938 and also in the replies of His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief in the Council of State
*Legislative Assembly Debates, 1939, Vol. I, page 253.