EUROPEAN SCHOOLS IN INDIA.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Since the inauguration of the new political arrange- ments in India it has become clear that grants from Indian public funds for the support of the special schools for Europeans will be increasingly challenged. We have to face the diminu- tion of these grants, and, possibly, their eventual cessation
as grants adequate to maintain European schools in efficiency. But without these special schools the Domiciled Community cannot continue to exist as a community with European ideals.
We consider that the children of British descent in India ought, in justice, to have educational opportunities at least as favourable as those open to every child in Britain. It now seems certain that, if these opportunities are to be afforded in the future, European schools in India will have to be in great measure financed from Britain. We are, therefore, appealing for funds to enable this Association to carry out its objects on a much larger scale than has hitherto been possible.—I am, Sir, &c.,
92 Fleet Street, E.C.
W. H. ARDEN WOOD, Joint Honorary Secretary, European Schools in India Improvement Association.
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