This is an authority letter of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar issued to a Canvasser — Editors.
“Jai Bhavani”
Bhimrao R. Ambedkar
M.A., Ph.D., D.Sc., Bar-at-Law
Member Legislative Council
Bombay
This is to certify that the bearer Shankarda Narayandas Barve is a worker of the Bahiskhrit Hitkarini Sabha, an organization established for the uplift of the Depressed Classes and a canvasser for the Bahishkrit Bharat, a paper which stands for safeguarding the interests of the Depressed Classes.
His duty is to travel from place to place in the presidency in the cause of the Depressed Classes to deliver lectures and exhort them to strive for their betterment. It is requested that the public bodies help him as far as possible.
Sd/- B.R. Ambedkar
BHAURAO PATIL’S INSTITUTION DESERVES SUPPORT
This is a remark made by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar in the Visit Book of the hostel run by the institution of the Great Social Reformer and Educationist Karmavir Bhaurao Patil at Satara — Editors.
“I am extremely happy to have been able to pay this visit to the Hostel. It is a unique institution and deserves support of every man who cares for the best interests of this nation. Every credit is due to my friend Bhaurao Patil. I am paying Rs. 20/- to this institution.”
Satara
29-07-1928
Sd/- B.R. Ambedkar
COMPLAINT AGAINST ME IS ABSOLUTELY UNFOUNDED
“Denies Statement alleged to have been made before Commission.
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar has sent us a lengthy statement from which we take the following material points:-
“My attention is drawn to the statement appearing in your issue of 6th instant in which the President of the Sholapur Municipality has given publicity to the resolution of the Municipality strongly repudiating the implied suggestion in my evidence to the statement that the grant to the Depressed Classes Hostel at Sholapur was stopped as a repercussion of Hindu-Muslim riot and explaining the facts that led to the stoppage of the grant…
The complaint against me seems to be based upon the supposition that, in the course of my evidence before the Simon Commission, I stated that the grant given to the Depressed Classes Hostel at Sholapur was deliberately discontinued by the Municipality because the Depressed Classes of Sholapur had refused to help the Higher class Hindus during the Hindu-Muslim riots in 1925, which the Municipality holds is an untrue statement…
My reply to the statement by the Municipality is that its complaint against me is unfounded and is based upon a deliberate misreading of my evidence…
I am sure, every fair-minded man would agree that in my evidence I have never stated that the grant was stopped because the Depressed Classes refused to aid the Caste Hindus in the Hindu-Muslim riot. On the contrary, I have clearly stated that I did not know what the cause was…
I wish the Municipality had stopped vilifying me for the implication that, it thinks, arises from the statement made by me during my evidence. It goes a step further and tries to give what it considers to be the true reasons for the stopping of the grant to the Hostel.” (To be continued)
