A firm belief in liberalism led Gokhale to think that by persuasion the British who introduced the same type of political institutions and educational system that existed in England. Among the various social and political reforms about fish he spoke and compained work : civil marriage, Indianization of public services, decentralization of Administration, communal Unity, abolition of untouchability and were possible only under the auspices of representative Indian governmentg. Therefore he stood for Swaraj. In his residential address to the Banaras Congress (1905) he put his concept of Sarah. According to him, '' The goal of the Congress is that India should be governed in the interest of the Indians themselves and that, in course of time, if form of government should be attained in this country similar to what exists in the self governing colonies of the British Empire. For better or for worse, our destinies are now linked with those of England and the Congress freely recognised that whatever advance we seek must be within the Empire itself. That advance, moreover, can only be gradual, as at each stage of the progress it may be necessary for us to pass through a brief course of apprenticeship before we are unable to go to the next one ; for it is a reasonable proposition that the sense of responsibility, required for the proper exercise of the political institutions of the west, can be acquired by an Eastern people through practical training and experience only.''
