26 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
I . Grants Voted in 1921 [1]
I. Grants voted by the Working Committee at its meeting held in Calcutta on January 31st and February 1st, 2nd and
3rd 1921 :—
Rs. 1,00,000 to remain at the disposal of Mahatma Gandhi for the support of lawyers who give up their practice and stand in need of support ( iv ) .
Read the following telegram dated the 31st January 1921 from Syt. C. Rajagopalachariar :—
“Regret unable to attend meeting. Selected full time public workers for Tamil, Kerala part Karnatak about hundred, of whom about forty lawyers suspending practice. Pending collection Tilak Fund sanction drawing Rs. 5,600 per month. Students’ movement progressing rapidly though newspapers do not show up news. Must carry on against parental opposition, least two months. Must draw three thousand per month for this. Committee must immediately wire authority issuing Swarajya Fund receipts in name of Congress for convenient denominations like Khilafat receipts. Confident to make up all advances in three months. Do not hope large sums Madras.”
Resolved that a sum of Rs. 8,600 be advanced to Tamil, Kerala and the Karnatak parts of the Madras Presidency for one month for the present, and for future advances the matter be placed before the next meeting of the Working Committee ( xx ) .
II. Grants voted by the Working Committee at its meeting held at Bezwada on the 31st March and 1st April 1921 :—
- A lump sum of Rs. 6,000 be advanced to Pandit Mohanlal Nehru, Secretary, U.P. Provincial Congress Committee, for carrying on propaganda and collecting funds ( v ) .
“4. Rs. 17,000 be sanctioned for the remainder of the current year for the expenses of the office of the President, the Secretaries, the Cashier, and that out of the above a sum of Rs. 300 per mensem be assigned to Mr. C. Rajagopalachariar for the expenses of his secretary and the President’s stenotypist ( vii ) .
- A sum of 1,000 dollars remitted by cable to Mr. D. V. S. Rao of the India Home Rule League of America, 1,400 Broadway, New York ( viii ) . ”
III. The Working Committee at its resolution No. 18 dated 31st July 1921 appointed a Grants Sub-Committee to
1 Roman figures in the brackets after each grant refer to the resolution of the Working Committee by which the grant was made.