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DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
to the Untouchables set out under special column headed “Week to Week” on the first page. As samples I produce below these “Week to Week” columns from two issues from the Harijan.
‘Harijan’ of 18th February 1933
WEEK TO WEEK
(During the Week ending 7th February 1933)
T EMPLES T HROWN O PEN
One temple recently built at a cost of a lakh and half rupees in North Calcutta.
One temple in village Bhapur, district Ganjam, Madras.
One Thakurdwar temple at Naurania, in Jullundar, Punjab.
W ELLS O PENED
One Municipal well, at Guriapur in Jaipur town, district Cuttack, Orissa.
Two wells in Wazirpura and Nikigali, Agra, U.P.
In Trichinopoly (Madras) an orthodox Brahmin has offered expenses necessary for digging three wells for the common use of Harijans and caste Hindus.
S CHOOLS S TARTED
A free school in Bachrota, district Meerut, U.P.
One school at Metah district in Rajputana.
Three schools at Fatehpur, Chemun and Abhaypur in Jaipur State, Rajputana.
One school at Fatehghar, district Farukhabad, U.P.
Three night schools in Muttra, U.P.
Three night schools in
Gorakhpur Town, U.P.
One night school in Hata Tehsil, District Gorakhpur, U.P.
One night school at Sak-honia. I NDIAN S TATES
The Palitana State (Kathiawar) Assembly has passed by a large majority three resolutions relating to the facilities to be given to the Harijans.
A standing committee has been appointed by the Government of Sandhur State, Madras, to concert measures calculated to ameliorate the condition of the Harijans in the State. G ENERAL
The Harijans in various villages near Kashia in Gorakhpur district have given up carrion eating.
On the occasion of the ‘Basantpanchami’ festival ‘Basantotsava’ was celebrated at Muzaffarpur (Bihar) under the auspices of the Harijan Seva Sangh in the temple of Sri Chaturbhujnathji in which all castes of Hindus took part.
A. V. T HAKKAR,
General Secretary.