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principally because the directors exercised patronage
 which they feared they might lose. The first
step taken to educate the young civil servants
for their duties, was the establishment of a college
at Calcutta, at which the civilians for all the three
presidencies were required to undergo a course
of study in law and the classical and Oriental
languages.

The course was almost immediately afterwards
restricted to instruction in the Vernacular and in
Sanscrit and Arabic; and might be gone through
at Calcutta, Madras, or Bombay,

In 1806 Haileybury College was established in
England for the edycation of persons nominated
by the directors to the civil service. Any one who
was nominated to Haileybury was practically sure
of obtaining an appointment, whatever his abilities
might be.

Notwithstanding the defects of the system, the
civil service attained a high standard for public
character and intelligence. *The real cause of its
excellence at that time as well as now, is to be
found in the admirable school which is afforded
by its special duties. The Indian civilian, immediately
 upon his arrival in the country, is placed
In a situation calculated to call forth, in an

 Chesney’s Indian Polity, Pp. 221 and 222.