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for having preserved so important a piece of information for posterity. Without it, this book could not have been written. Secondly, I must thank Prof. Kangle of Ismail Yusuf College, Andheri, Bombay. He has come to my rescue and has checked the translation of Sanskrit shlokas which occur in the book. As I am not a Sanskrit scholar, his help has been to me a sort of an assurance that I have not bungled badly in dealing with the material which is in Sanskrit. The fact that he has helped me does not mean that he is responsible for such faults and errors as may be discovered by my critics. Thanks are also due to Prof. Manohar Chitnis of the Siddharth College, Bombay, who has been good enough to prepare the Index.
I am grateful to Messrs. Charles Scribner’s Sons Publishers, New York for their kind permission to reproduce the three maps from Mr. Madison Grant’s Passing of the Great Race and which form Appendices II, III and IV of this book.
10th October 1946 B. R. AMBEDKAR
“R AJGRIHA,” D ADAR, B OMBAY 14.