Chapter 8Letters Written While Employed in the Princely State of Baroda, 1895–1906 · To Bhuban Babu

Letters Written as a Probationer in the Indian Civil Service, 1892

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To the Right Hon the Earl of

Kimberley Secretary of State

for

India.

6 Burlington Rd

Bayswater W

Monday. Nov. 21. 1892 May it please your Lordship I was selected as a probationer for the Indian Civil Service in 1890, and after the two years probation required have been rejected on the ground that I failed to attend the Examination in Riding. I humbly petition your Lordship that a farther consideration may, if possible, be given to my case. I admit that the Commissioners have been very indulgent to me in the matter, and that my conduct has been as would naturally lead them to suppose me negligent of their instructions; but I hope your Lordship will allow me to lay before you certain circumstances that may tend to extenuate it. I was sent over to England, when seven years of age, with my two elder brothers and for the last eight years we have been thrown on our own resources without any English friend to help or advise us. Our father, Dr.. K. D. Ghose of Khulna, has been unable to provide the three of us with sufficient for the most necessary wants, and we have long been in an embarrassed position.