(d) The Servants of India Society was formed in Pune, Maharashtra on June, 1905 by Gopal Krishna Gokhale, who left the Deccan Education Society to form this association. Servants of India Society was founded to unite and train Indians of different ethnicities and religions in welfare work. It was the first secular organisation in that country to devote itself to the underprivileged, rural and tribal people, emergency relief work, the increase of literacy, and other social causes.