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(xv)TABLE OF CONTENTS SR. NO. SUBJECT PAGE 54. Rejection of Railwaymen’s Federation Demands … 312 55. Proposed evacuation of villages in the prosecution of the Damodar Scheme … … 317 56. Workmen’s Compensation (Amendment) Bill … 320 57. Indian Mines (Amendment) Bill … … 323 58. Factories (Amendment) Bill … … 326 59. Rehabilitation Plans … … 334 60. Welfare and Social Security of Workers … … 339 61. Muslims have fared much better in Labour Department 344 62. The Indian Finance Bill … … 354 63. Strike by workers of Government of India Press … 364 64. Factories (Amendment) Bill … … 367 65. Mica Mines Labour Welfare Fund Bill … … 373 66. Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Bill … 385 67. Mica Mines Labour Welfare Fund Bill … 390 68. Miscellaneous … … … 392 PART II SECTION 1 1. Grievances of the Scheduled Castes : by Dr. Ambedkar 403 SECTION 2 1. Note by Sir S. Cripps … … … 445 2. Dr. Ambedkar and Mr. S. Rajah to Sir S. Cripps … 447 3. Sir R. Lumley (Bombay) to the Marquess of Linlithgow (Extract) … … … 449 4. Cripps Proposals … … … 452 5. Statement of Dr. Ambedkar on the Cripps Proposals … 455 6. The Marquess of Linlithgow to Mr. Amery … 463 7. War Cabinet Paper W.P. (42) 283 Memorandum by the Lord Privy Seal … … … 465 8. The Marquess of Linlithgow to Mr. Amery … 467 9. The Marquess of Linlithgow to Mr. Amery … 468 10. Dr. Ambedkar to the Marquess of Linlithgow … 470 11. Precis of discussion in the Viceroy’s Executive Council 473 12. Field Marshal Viscount Wavell to Mr. Amery … 475

Part I Speeches (xvi) DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES SR. NO. SUBJECT PAGE 13. Dr. Ambedkar to Field Marshal Viscount Wavell … 476 14. Field Marshal Viscount Wavell to Lord PethickLawrence … … … … 480 15. Note of meeting between Cabinet delegation, Lord Wavell and Dr. Ambedkar … … 482 16. Dr. Ambedkar to Lord Wavell … … 487 17. Members of the Executive Council to Field Marshal Viscount Wavell … … … 491 18. Dr. Ambedkar to Rt. Hon’ble Mr. A. V. Alexander … 492 19. Dr. Ambedkar to Lord Pethick-Lawrence … 500 20. Lord Pethick-Lawrence to Dr. Ambedkar … 502 21. Rao Bahadur Sivaraj to Field Marshal Viscount Wavell 503 22. Mr. Attlee to Dr. Ambedkar … … … 509 23. Dr. Ambedkar to Mr. Attlee … … … 512 24. Lord Pethick-Lawrence to Mr. Attlee … 515 25. Lord Pethick-Lawrence to Mr. Attlee … 517 SECTION 3 1. A Critique of the proposals of the Cabinet Mission: by Dr. Ambedkar … … … 521 2. The Cabinet Mission and the Untouchables: by Dr. Ambedkar … … … 537 PART III 1 to Questions and Answers … … … 551472 1072 Index … … … … 10731079 Errata … … … … 1080 DISCOUNT POLICY ON SALE OF VOLUMES

1 Dr. B. R. Ambedkar A Biographical Sketch * Who’s Who in Viceroy’s Council Thirty years ago, a Mahar youth viewed the golden vista of opportunity opened up by education and decided that his life’s work should be a crusade against the social system which declared him and his kinsmen untouchables whose very shadows polluted high caste Hindus in their vicinity. Today, Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar holds the portfolio of Labour in the Viceroy’s Executive Council, but he still feels that his first duty is to the millions in India who belong to the so-called Depressed Classes and that no considerations of personal well-being or ambition should come in the way of his leading them to emancipation. Those who know of his attacks on the Hindu social system and of his differences with caste Hindu leaders will certainly feel that he is a much embittered man. But to one who has heard him tell of his career and antecedents, the wonder is that he is not even more bitter and that he has managed to crowd into a life devoted so largely to his crusade against untouchability so many interests, and to study a great variety of subjects with so much distinction. One naturally asks : How did this untouchable manage to acquire any sort of education ? The answer is simple. His community—the Mahars—are cultivators, village servants and soldiers. They once supplied the Bombay Army of the East India Company with its manpower, just as the Dusads of Bihar and the Pariahs of Madras manned the armies of the Company in those Provinces. Then sepoys were given education in the Army, and Subedar Ramji Maloji Ambedkar, Dr. Ambedkar’s father, had once been a teacher in an Army school. * Indian Information, March 1, 1943, pp. 194-95. This article was published under the caption ‘Personalities’. Name of the author is not printed on the article. —Ed.