Editing Gopal Krishna Gokhale (section)

==Servants of India society==
[[File:Gopal Krishna Gokhale 01.JPG|thumb|Statue of Gokhale in Churchgate]]
In 1905, when Gokhale was elected president of the [[Indian National Congress]] and was at the height of his political power, he founded the [[Servants of India Society]] to specifically further one of the causes dearest to his heart: the expansion of Indian education. For Gokhale, true political change in India would only be possible when a new generation of Indians became educated as to their civil and patriotic duty to their country and to each other. Believing existing educational institutions and the [[Indian Civil Service]] did not do enough to provide Indians with opportunities to gain this political education, Gokhale hoped the Servants of India Society would fill this need. In his preamble to the SIS's constitution, Gokhale wrote that "The Servants of India Society will train men prepared to devote their lives to the cause of country in a religious spirit, and will seek to promote, by all constitutional means, the national interests of the Indian people."<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":6" /><ref name=":2" /><ref name=":7" /><ref>Wolpert, Stanley (1962) ''Tilak and Gokhale: Revolution and Reform in the Making of Modem India'', Berkeley, U. California, pp. 158–160.</ref> The Society took up the cause of promoting Indian education in earnest, and among its many projects organised mobile libraries, founded schools, and provided night classes for factory workers.<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1017/S0026749X00014335|jstor=313033|title=Education for National Efficiency: Constructive Nationalism in North India, 1909-1916|journal=Modern Asian Studies|volume=31|issue=2|pages=339–374|last1=Watt|first1=Carey A.|year=1997|s2cid=144344830 }}</ref> Although the Society lost much of its vigour following Gokhale's death, it still exists to this day, though its membership is small.