1122 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
as it was at one time; not at the time when there was any injustice or tyranny by any section of society over any other but at a time when every member......
Shrimati Renuka Ray : Remember it.
Pandit Malaviya : Of course I remember it, otherwise how should I say it. But it is Mrs. Renuka Ray who needs to know it and to remember it.
Shrimati Renuka Ray : You are talking about the Hindu society during the days of its decadence. Please remember the Vedas and the Upanishadas.
Mr. Chairman : May I request the hon. Member to proceed with his argument as he was proceeding before and not to answer these interruptions ? Otherwise the main thread of his theme will be lost. I would request hon. Members not to interrupt the speaker.
Shrimati Durgabai: May I interrupt, Sir ? Is not this Bill intended to bring the example of Rama to all men ? Is not that a subject matter now ?
Mr. Chairman: This is a very clear interrruption.
Sardar B. S. Man : It is very dangerous nowadays to ignore interruptions from hon. lady Members.
Shrimati Durgabai: In the matter of interruption, there is no distinction between lady Members and others.
Pandit Malaviya: In the Brahman society the woman has been given the highest place. There is nothing higher than the mother.
Dr. M. M. Das : One man marrying 250 wives : Is that the dignity conferred on a woman ?
Mr. Chairman: Order, order. Let the hon. Member proceed.
Pandit Maitra: Which man has married 250 wives ?
Dr. M. M. Das : I am referring......
Mr. Chairman : Order, order. No mutual wrangling ; we must keep the decorum of the House.
Pandit Malaviya: To go back to where I was, I was therefore submitting that if nothing else could be done, we might at least have this measure made applicable to the areas which were previously called the Indian States. Only after that process has been gone through viz., that it has been published and circularised there and the Legislatures concerned have decided that it should apply to them.
There is yet another difficulty which I have. And that is, that when the Hindu Code was first framed, according to the Constitution which