Brahmins started Congress for reservation in government jobs!

Congress was born only for reservation and not for independence.

The “immediate occasion for its (Indian National Congress) birth was the alteration of the rules applicable to candidates for the ICS to the detriment of Indian candidates” (Page-7-The Republic of India, the British Commonwealth-The Development of its laws and Constitution- Alan Gledhill).

Q: Why were the rules applicable for the ICS amended?


A: To curtail entry of Indians.


Q: How many Indians had thus gained entry in the pre-amended period, numerous?


A: No. Only a few.


Q: Would it imply that the capabilities of the Indians to become ICS officers were just not matching those of the British, in the pre-amended period?


A: Yes, it seems to be so.

Gokhale fought for "them"


Q: What did Gokhale do in this regard?


A: He pleaded for relaxation of rules. While pleading thus Gokhale made an effective plea before the Royal Commission on Indian Expenditure. He did not ask for reduction of expenditure in running the government but for more no. of Indians in the ICS. He had pointed out in answer No. 18331, that there were 2388 officials in Indian Civil Service drawing annual salaries of Rs.10000 and upwards and said that out of them only 60 were Indians. (Ref: A Birds eye view of India’s past as the foundation for India’s future-Annie Besant- Theosophical Publishing House-Fourth Edition – 1930)

Q: How many persons out of the said 60 Indians were Shudras, i.e., non-Brahmins?


A: A minuscule.


Q: Whose welfare did Gokhale plead for then?


A: He was pleading for the welfare of his own people.


Q: Did they want to fight for the independence of India, by occupying the posts in the ICS?


A: No. They were just serving and serving the British. But they were within the power center.


Q: Why did Gokhale who is called as freedom fighter made such an effective plea for more ‘Indians’ in the cadre of ICS, then?

A: Naturally, for the welfare of the people of his own 'denomination'. He told the Royal Commission that. "The excessive costliness of the foreign agency is not, however, its only evil. There is a moral evil, which, if anything, is even greater. A kind of dwarfing or stunting of the Indian race is going on under the present system. We must live all the days of our life in an atmosphere of inferiority and the tallest of us must bend in order that the exigencies of the existing system may be satisfied", pleaded Gokhale. (Page 57&58-ibid.).

Q: So, according to him, non-representation in adequate size in the Executive would result in living a life with inferiority complex. Is it not?

A: Yes, he said such non-representation resulted in dwarfing and stunting the Indian race. His statement would testify to the fact that non-representation of SCs, STs, OBCs, Muslims and Christians in adequate number in the departments like RAW, IB, MEA, MHA, etc., would result in dwarfing and stunting these sections of Indians also. It is only that these people do not know these facts very clearly.

Banerjea did not plead for independence


Q: What did Surendranath Banerjea say?


A: He pleaded, “It is not severance that we look forward to but unification, permanent embodiment as an integral part of that great Empire that has given the rest of the world the models of free institutions”.

Q: Did he not fight for independence then?


A: No, he was only for collaboration.


Q: Who occupied the posts in the government offices at that time to carry out the orders of the British rulers?

A: Mahathma Gandhi answers this question. He says, By the 1930s, “a mere 4000 British civil servants assisted by 60,000 soldiers and 90,000 civilians (businessmen and clergymen form the most part) had billeted themselves upon a country of 300 million persons” (Page 11- Culture and Imperialism.- Edward W Said. Published by A.A.KNOPF, New York- 1984). You must take note of the word ‘clergymen’ used by Mahathma Gandhi.

Q: Were the Brahmins better off in the British or were suffering?

A: During the discussion about holding the conference of the All India Brahmin Federation, in candid acceptance of the fact that the Brahmins were better off in the pre-independence period cornering disproportionate benefits for themselves, Mr. S R Anjaneyalu, said that “the plight of the Brahmin youth worsened after the country achieved independence, as the increasing reservation in education, employment and promotions to other ‘backward classes’, frustrated the progress of the Brahmins.”

“The AIBF which represents powerful state level Brahmins organizations in Kerala, Tamilnadu, Karnataka and AP, as also northern states such as Maharashtra, UP, MP and Rajasthan is planning to hold a national conference at Delhi in November this year, to focus attention of the Central Government on the “unjustness of the present reservation policy” which is leading to “great frustration among the youth”. – (Indian Express 24.9.85).




Q: What does his statement imply?

A: It implies that the SCs, the STs and the BCs have come up after the independence of the nation. It also implies that the Brahmins do not like this development. It is also a clear declaration that they viewed the Backward Class people as ‘others’, who have usurped the ‘share’ of the Brahmins.