Chapter 1 Philosophy of Hinduism - Page 106

PART II

India and

The Pre-requisites

of Communism

We are reproducing here the text of Chapter One and Two of ‘The Hindu Social Order’. This Chapter seems to be a part of the book entitled ‘India and Communism’. From the contents on the first page of the typed script, we find that Dr. Ambedkar had divided the whole book “India and Communism” into three parts. The first part was captioned as ‘The Prerequisites of Communism’. This part was to have three Chapters but we could not find any of these Chapters in Dr. Ambedkar’s papers. So far as the part Two is concerned which is titled “India and the Pre-requisites of Communism”, only Chapter Four entitled, “Hindu Social Order” has been found in a well bound register. This Chapter has two sub-titles as follows :—

I—Hindu Social Order: Its Essential Principles, and II—The Hindu Social Order: Its Unique Features. No other chapters on the subjects mentioned in the table of contents of this book were found. In all, there are 63 foolscap typed pages.—Editors.