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DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
These lampoons and parodies give the impression that the members of the servile classes are perverse if not idiotic in making such demands and the governing classes in opposing the demands of the servile classes are seeking to maintain in India an efficient body politic by insisting that every place of power and authority should be filled by none but the best IV
( Letter to all Local Governments, 1934 )
In response to a resolution passed by the Legislative Assembly, with which the Government of India are in full agreement, I am directed to say that henceforward every appointment under Government should go by rotation to each community irrespective of the merits of the applicants.
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( Notification in the Bombay Government Gazette, 1934 )
The Government of Bombay will proceed to make the following appointments in December. The applicants for the several appointments should belong to the castes mentioned against each according to the rotation fixed by Government Order No. ... dated November 30th, 1934.
Chief Engineer for Irrigation (Sind) : Kunbi from North Kanara.
Professor of Sanskrit, Elphinstone College, Bombay : Baluchi Pathan from Sind.
Commandant of His Excellency’s Bodyguard: Marwari from North Gujarat.
Consulting Architect to Government: Wadari (wandering gypsy) from the Deccan.
Director of Islamic culture : Karhada Brahmin.
Professor of Anatomy : (Grant Medical College) Mahomedan Butcher.
Superintendent of Yeravda Jail: Ghantichor.
Two organizers of prohibition : Dharala (Kaira District Bhil) (Panch Mahals).
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( Report of a Case from the High Court, 1935 )
A.B. (caste Teli) was charged with the cold- blooded murder of his father while he was asleep. The judge summing up against the accused, the jury brought in a verdict of guilty. Before passing sentence the judge asked the pleader for the accused if he had to say anything. The pleader, Mr. Bomanji, said he agreed with the verdict but that according to Law the accused could not be sentenced at all, much less sentenced to death, as during the current year seven Telia had already been convicted and sentenced two of them with death, that several other communities had not yet reached their quota of convictions as given in the Government of India Act, while the Telia had already reached theirs. His Lordship accepted the contention of the defence pleader and acquitted the accused.
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( Extract from the ‘Indian Daily Mail’, 1936 )
Annaji Ramchandra (Chitpavan Brahmin) was found wandering in the streets of Poona with a long knife attacking whomsoever he met. When brought up before the Magistrate he was shown by the police to have been recently let off from the Mental Hospital. The Superintendent of the Hospital in his evidence said that Annaji had been in the hospital as a dangerous insane for three years, but as there was the quota for the Chitpavanas and as the inmates belonging to other communities had not finished their year-quotas he could not keep