KALARAM TEMPLE................ENTRY MOVEMENT 187
Second letter:—
“BHIMRAO R. AMBEDKAR, Damodar Hall Parel, M.A., Ph. D., D. Sc, Bombay-12. Bar-at-law, 11th April 1930.
Member, Legislative Council,
Bombay.
To,
His Excellency the Rt. Honourable Sir, Frederick Sykes, P. C, G. C. I. E., G. B.E.,K. C.B.,C.M.G., Governor of Bombay, Bombay.
May it please Your Excellency,
The Government of Bombay must have received a report from the District Magistrate of Nasik on the riot that took place there between the touchables and the Untouchables on the 9th instant. I feel it necessary to submit to Your Excellency my reversion of the riot.
Origin of the Riot :—According to the practice of the Kala Ram Temple at Nasik, the Rath (carriage of the God Ram) was to be taken out in the procession through the city. I was asked by Inspector Karnik (one of the Police Officers on duty at the Kala Ram Temple) what attitude I proposed to adopt the connection with the Rath procession. I told him that if equal treatment was accorded to Untouchables I had no objection to the Rath being taken out and I also specified the nature of the equality of treatment. I had stipulated for stating that I would insist upon two things—
(1) That the Untouchables will participate in dragging the Rath alongwith the touchables, and (2) the Untouchables will offer Puja to the Idol in the Rath. Mr. Karnik then left and turned with the District Magistrate. The District Magistrate told me that my conditions were accepted by the touchable Hindus and that the touchables would bring the Rath to the main door of the temple