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Courtesy: Pyarelal, TELEGRAM TO B. R. AMBEDKAR If you devoted yourself entirely to the welfare of the Depressed Classes, you would then become our hero. We do realize that you are of immense help to us. October 17, 1932 NAMES BEING CHOSEN BY SARDAR. BAPU: Sure. I am a lifelong democrat. The decision of the Government gives me seventy-one seats and I feel that is a just, reasonable and definite allocation. That can only happen when untouchables are treated on par with caste Hindus in every respect. I hope you saw my reply. 144 - 6 But, if you are anxious to solve the Hindu-untouchable problem as you are to solve the Hindu-Muslim problem, I shall be glad to formulate points on which a settlement is necessary...”, Copyright © 2015 SEVAGRAM ASHRAM. Unfortunately, the solution of this problem is in the hands of a third power, which is in a position to mend or worsen the situation. I learnt the lesson of democracy at the tender age of 12. A. BAPU: No, it is there in its preamble. I will not get angry even if you spit on my face. Mahadevbhaini Diary, Vol. SEVAGRAM, DIST.WARDHA 442102, MS, INDIA. Malaviyaji has already declared that question of offering puja does not arise. I have asked my son to convey my message to the Conference. If you repudiate us and go away I would think that we only deserved it. People like Iqbal who are enemies of the country will come to the forefront. Yours sincerely, From a copy: Pyarelal Papers. You should not worry about the number as long as the appointing power is in your hands. Developed and maintain by Bombay Sarvodaya Mandal | Sitemap, You are visitor no. If we can get both the Bills passed the trustees will not be able to put up any kind of obstacle. SEVAGRAM, August 6, 1944 117-22 GANDHIJI: According to you. But the other lengthier Bill was brought forward because the first one could not be introduced in the Provincial Legislature. I never wanted the depressed people to go on their knees to the savarna Hindus and ask them to get these Bills passed. II, pp. Enclosure From a photostat: S.N. A. Regard being had as to his precarious health; I have advised that it would be better if he could reconcile himself to some Harijan service against... to feed and clothe himself. My work will not die with me. 5 SEPTEMBER, 1932 - 15 NOVEMBER, 1932) My people have to put up with beatings and bitterness increases. However, I should like to ask you one question. Its fair point lies in admitting that this custom is immoral. You say that if there is any genuine party among the Depressed Classes it should be given sufficient scope to rise. In accepting the Poona Pact you accept the position that you are Hindus. You will know if you ask Vaze. I thought that the issue raised by you was of such momentous importance that if I discussed it at all, I should do so publicly. He wants me to advise him as to the course he should take. Vide “Dr. I could have taken the case to Sessions and got him acquitted, but the magistrate changed the charge of murder to one of grievous injury. I want to do away with all these hardships. I am ready to give my life for it. A person who is regarded as ‘unseeable’ today should also have the opportunity to become the Viceroy of India. A. //--> to our website since 2013. Yes, I can perhaps stay there. A. Gandhi's Writing Assignment.pdf - Name Sam Appiah Date Title Gandhi's Writing Assignment Have you heard of the Letter to Lord Irwin On March 2 1930 he What is the purpose of the whole piece Does this example work toward that This is an exhaustive, comprehensive and thoroughly up-to-date edition of Mr. Gandhi's Speeches and Writings revised and considerably amplified, with the addition of a large number of articles from Young India' and Navajivan (rendered int English.) I say that you may do whatever you like after my body falls. G. If you elaborate your argument, I shall think over it. Thank you for yours of July 31 received yesterday. All the injustices you mention ought to end. If you can show me a way to a common meeting ground between us I would like to see it. P.O. Writing to another follower in the last letter of this memorable collection, Gandhi voiced his fears of the future while paying a touching tribute to his “old friend” Kallenbach who had died in 1946. Source: The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi- APPENDIX X VOL. Source: The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi-Vol. M. K. GANDHI I want to serve the untouchables. And I know, too, that on broad politics of the country we see things from different angles. Letter To Adolf Hitler, December 24, 1940, Selected Letters from Selected Works of M. K. Gandhi Volume-IV, Mahatma Gandhi's Correspondence With Europeans and Others. 57: 7 and transport fare. Therefore their refusal to accept joint electorates without primary elections is quite reasonable. (rendered int English.) But I told him that he should take your advice and be guided by you. All rights reserved. I see difficulties in his taking it up. We have not made any decision. Gandhiji asked Dr. Ambedkar for a criticism of the work of the Harijan Sevak Sangh. I would love to find a meeting ground between us on both the questions. III, pp. ...Now the Government will have to issue orders against the sanatanists under Section 144 because they would be regarded as interfering with untouchables’ rights. In Poona, all others stay with their friends. I wish to tell the Hindus that I should be assured of my compensation. So we two agree on this point that there is no question of your imploring the savarna Hindus. The Bill mentions temple-entry but it makes no mention of entry into the sanctum sanctorum. All of you will either accept Christianity or Islam. Yours sincerely, To correct the agreement was a minor thing. Do not bring to me something, which is so bad that I would not even like the look of it. If the caste Hindus had the strength they would have engaged untouchables as servants. It will raise their status. I only want that social and economic hardships should end. But I must admit my failure to come nearer to you. The Hindu mind does not work in a rational way. We might feel that that would be a waste of money that there should be another way out for it. Hence I do not feel interested in the thing. DEAR DR. AMBEDKAR, I have been trying to do what I can to placate Bengal, but so far without success. It does not give me sufficient place to turn in. And it is also very easy. I also think that the two Bills do not go together... A. The other alternative is to take up a business line. Vide Appendix “A Resolution”, before 9-8-1944. You will of course say why I should worry about that. Discussing the propriety or otherwise of Ranga Iyer’s two Bills [Ambedkar] said: The one-paragraph Bill is a very simple one. 21074, Source: The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi- VOL. Selected Writings of MAHATMA GANDHI www.mkgandhi.org Page 5 For several months I worked in a Yorkshire coal-field as a miner. From Gujarati I do not like it from the beginning that the community should be divided into two groups. They ought to discharge the debt, which they owe whether the creditor keeps it or throws it into the gutter. The worthy Doctor suggested that the Sangh might economize on education and medical relief, as these were attended to by Government and there was a risk of duplication of effort in these matters. Will they let a member of the depressed community place flowers on the idol, or will they let him offer a tray containing oblations? As regards cases of maltreatment of Harijans by villagers, such as those adduced by Dr. Ambedkar, Gandhiji said the Sangh was bound to deal with them. G. Not to you personally. Yours sincerely, The sanatanists would prefer the second Bill. A. I have come here for this. You wish that temples should be erected or wells should be dug. The basis of the agreement therefore should be: I should get what is due to me. Harijan, 29-6-1934 You ought to demonstrate your determination by getting these Bills passed. BAPU: I have nothing to say if you have come with a final decision that you are not going to move your little finger to have this Bill passed. There would be one election, i.e., of the primary nature by the Harijan voters only. A. GANDHI, From a copy: C. W. 10176. From a copy: C. W. 7949. I know he will receive your reply in due course. I want that the entire untouchable community should unitedly rebel against the sanatanists. A. A. I must honestly say that I have no interest in the temples being thrown open, common dinners and the like, because we suffer thereby. If we are in a majority we can get the reforms that we wish brought about. G. V. Naik, Amritrao Khambe and Baburao Gaekwad. Over and above that I get the right to vote and contest elections in the general constituencies. In that, I have said that they should not be tempted to forsake the interests of the Harijans in order to save my life. 59: 13 JANUARY 1933 - 9 MARCH 1933, From Gujarati I therefore accept the Clause [of primary election] but I would most certainly have to scrutinize its wording. However you will do that only if you are convinced that my co-operation has some value. BAPU: I am not asking you to do anything. The other would be by the joint electorate. Now he will receive some punishment. When you use derogatory and angry words for me, I tell myself that I deserved that. In one Bill untouchability ceases to be a disability and the law refuses to accept the argument based on untouchability. You may not know what even I have to face. A. DOCTOR AMBEDKAR, M. L. A. You will not be able to go ahead a single step unless you maintain your position absolutely correct. Now be honest and stick to it. Please have a look at it and, taking it to be mine, think over it. What I do not understand is why you have not said so far that there should be a separate election of this kind. BAPU: We are well caught on this point. We ask of you that our silence should not be misconstrued. A. I have accepted only the political aspect of it. However, I make a claim, which will seem astounding to you. ANANDKUNJ, RAJKOT, April 14, 1939 BAPU: I told you that I could have nothing to say if you have already taken a decision. G. It will be good if you write under your own name. But I suspect something when you insist that the panel should consist only of three candidates. This is bound to follow it. Meanwhile, I must reconcile myself to the present unfortunate difference. There was a time when I used to think that when that question was solved India’s political troubles would be over. A. The main thing still remains to be done. I take it upon myself to have all the temples opened within one month if we could get both the Bills passed. But I would like you, for my sake, please, to hasten your reply so as to enable me to tell Rajaram what to do. III, pp. BOMBAY, June 16, 1934 BOMBAY A. BAPU: You cannot escape the situation that you are Hindus in spite of your statement to the contrary. A. Hence though I am a small man, I request you to come. A. Birla said that I should be taken on the Committee for the Abolition of Untouchability. What I say is that if the panel system is good for the Depressed Classes it should be good for the entire electorate. He must then attend regular hours and be prepared to do best work, which is fatal for a man who is in perpetual fear of developing active T.B. And though it has attained a great political importance its religious and social value is for me much greater. Courtesy: G. D. Birla. Associated Press, 14-2-1933, Source: The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi- Mahadevbhaini Diary, Vol. I will raze to the ground the fort of sanatanists with dynamite if all the untouchables are one and united. G. I am at one with you. I am scrutinizing the scheme to see how these people will be affected by it. I take the position—you might remember since I made the speech at the Round Table Conference—that we should atone for this. I thank you for your letter of the 12th instant enclosing your statement. Your principles of non-violence and Satyagraha has made tremendous changes in many lives . I feel from whatever study I have made of the subject that if I accept the primary election, the letter of my vow is not violated. I have to safeguard without any discrimination not the interest of one group alone but of the Depressed Class as a whole. G. You have clarified your position very beautifully. I shall think over it. But I have only one quarrel with you, that is, you work for the so-called national welfare and not for our interests alone. I ask them to grant the Harijans equal status before God. Mahadevbhaini Diary, Vol. A. I want political power for my community. A. I can set right the thing. Moreover, you consider panel system for some seats only, thereby satisfying both the parties [among Harijans]. He would like the Sangh to concentrate on the primary object of securing full civic rights for Harijans, such as the right to draw water from public wells and to send children to public schools, without any discrimination being exercised against them. Source: The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi- Volume 84, The Bombay Chronicle, 3-1-1945 Whilst I should fall in with your scheme if it was accepted by the provinces, I could not shoulder the burden of pressing the other provinces to reopen the Pact in respect of the number of seats allotted in their cases. 57: 5 SEPTEMBER, 1932 - 15 NOVEMBER, 1932, Letter to B. R. Ambedkar, February 16, 1933. After that I accept your point. AMBEDKAR: I have not come to discuss untouchability but political matters. I don’t want to be crushed by your charity. But that has not been so. A. Supposing we are lucky in the case of temple-entry, will they let us fetch water from the wells? You ought to know that my fast has not ended yet, it is still on. I would have to agree to the work of abolishing untouchability being done in accordance with your wishes. The Hindu-Muslim question is for me a lifelong question. G. I understand your point of view, and I shall keep it in mind and shall see what can be done. The point is that if you do not come, we shall get nothing in England and everything will be upset. Of course I agree with you that it does not behove your dignity to approach the Hindus. There is no contradiction in the two Bills. I cannot talk about it with you; even if you do I shall not be able to express an opinion—my mind does not work in that direction. That is indispensable for our survival. He tells me he has already written to you. You should not care for my life. Yours sincerely, From a microfilm: S.N. G. Servants of India? 61: 27 APRIL, 1933- 7 OCTOBER 193, AS AT PATNA, April 9, 1934 But do not be false to Harijans. Hence I think I must ask the Hindus to show me some sacred authority, which would rule out this feeling of lowliness. After the common dinner at Vile Parle, the Maratha workers went on strike. But in future Gandhiji would be glad if the Doctor was good enough to send him full facts about every incident of that description. II, p. 69-72. I did not receive anything from the Associated Press, but I saw it in the daily Press. In my village, I have to stay in the midst of the Mahars. I also have a franchise in the labourers’ constituencies. I do not say this out of pride but tell the truth with humility. A. In course of his tour of villages he had noticed that a change for the better was coming over them, but progress in that direction would be accelerated if he had the Doctor’s valued co-operation. If the Harijan population in Bengal is as was believed at the time of the Pact they have nothing to complain of. He would not be my worthy son if he did not lay down his life for the honour of Hinduism. Ambedkar and Caste”, 7-2-1933 Letter … However, I have shown you how my mind is working. I am sure that if I die my son will definitely follow me. It is not a thing that can be put down in writing. In the afternoon Dr. Ambedkar interviewed Gandhiji along with Dr. Solanki and other friends of his. GANDHIJI: That is true. But speaking as a sincere sanatanist I would prefer the first Bill. Pray excuse me for the delay in replying to your letter of 29-3-1934. Not only he but many others also will lay down their lives, for I do not have only one son, I have thousands. The whole world will agree that I was the foremost among the democrats after my ashes are scattered in the air or, if that does not happen, after they are immersed in the Ganga. My duties were to look after the pit ponies atthe bottom of the shaft. I was not a member of any BAPU: I go one step further. They have no objection to the untouchables touching them on the railway and other public places. You spoke the truth when you said that the welfare of untouchables is dearer to you than my own life. In accordance with my promise I send you herewith my opinion on your proposal. It seems there has been some misunderstanding somewhere in the case of Malaviyaji. From Gujarati, Discussion with B. R. Ambedkar, February 4, 1933. But I shall write anonymously or have someone write in a different way. But of course you may do as you wish. In one case, an untouchable was accused of having murdered a Maratha. Courtesy: D. B. Kalelkar. Without eradicating untouchability root and branch the honour of Hinduism cannot be saved. WARDHA, July 9, 1935 You are born an untouchable but I am an untouchable by adoption. In it I shall have to say a lot that will hurt the Muslims and I cannot say that publicly. If as a matter of fact it is much less than the figure on whose basis the number was fixed, I should think there would be no objection on your part to an amendment bringing the number to the figure required. Source: The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi- APPENDIX X VOL. There is no such admission in the second Bill. But I must say that you ought not to say that you are not a Hindu. 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