844 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
shows the hand of many a person but it has not been properly drafted. That is why there has been so much of confusion, so much of roundabout expression. I therefore submit that sub-clause (3) should be omitted. A Hindu should be a Hindu, one who follows the Hindu religion. With regard to Buddhists, Jainas and Sikhs, I should quite agree to them being included provided the Buddhists, Jainas and Sikhs agree to be bound by the Hindu Code. Those persons also are Hindus who are not Muslims, Christian, Parsi or Jew by religion. But you say that a person is a Hindu, though he is not a Hindu, if he is bound by this Code. Somehow or other that is a most unsatisfactory way of approach.
Shri Tyagi: He is a de jure if not a de facto Hindu.
Shri Naziruddin Ahmad : If you want to call a person a “Hindu”, I have no objection. That is a simple way. You simply
5 P.M. enumerate him as “Hindu”. Why this circumlocutory, roundabout and circuitous way of expressing it ? It shows, I say with respect, some confusion of thought.
Dr. Amhedkar : You are more confounded than anybody else in this House, I am afraid.
Shri Naziruddin Ahmad : I have other amendments which I shall try to deal with tomorrow, if I am not interrupted like this.
The House then adjourned till a Quarter to Eleven of the clock on Tuesday, the 6th February, 1951.
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