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communities nobody can dispute. How disastrous have been the consequences to the Scheduled Castes will be apparent from the figures given in the following table relating to the communal composition to the I.C.S. :—
TABLE III
Communal Proportion in the I.C.S. in 1942
Percentage of Total of
568 excluding Europeans
Community Total
Percentage of Total of
1056 including Europeans
Europeans … 488 42.4 ……
Hindus … 363 34.4 63.2
Muslims … 109 10.3 19.2
Indian Christians … 23 2.2 4.0
Anglo-Indians … 9 .9 1.5
Parsis … 9 .9 1.5
Sikhs … 11 1.0 2.0
Scheduled Castes … 1 Nil Nil
Others … 43 3.9 8.0
Total … 1,056
TABLE IV
I.C.S. through Competition and Nomination
Through Through Community Total Competition Nomination
Europeans … 336 152 488
Hindus … 332 31 363
Muslims … 35 74 109
Indian Christians … 19 4 23
Anglo Indians … 8 1 9
Parsis … 8 1 9
Sikhs … 5 6 11
Scheduled Castes … …… 1 1
Others … 28 15 43
Total … 771 285 1,056