KALARAM TEMPLE................ENTRY MOVEMENT 193
“My people don’t need me”
You may publish a translation of this in handbills and broadcast them among our people. I have been reading the telegrams regarding the struggle at Mukhed between our people and the castemen. I am glad to find that our people are prepared at all costs to carry on the fight to a success. I congratulate them on their splendid resolve. I see that you are starting Satyagraha on the 5th November. I hope you have made the best preparation. I am sorry. I am not there to help you. But I know that our people are now alive to their problem and that they do not need me every time.—A.P.” [1]
The situation prevailing in Nasik during the Satyagraha was reported in the Times of India as follows : Editors.
“No Right to bathe in the Sacred Kunds,
Nasik enduring decisions against Untouchables.
(From our Correspondent.)
Nasik, June 6, 1932.
‘On the whole I believe that Untouchables have neither the right to approach the four Kunds (bathing pools) nor to bathe in them. Therefore, under Section 147 (3) of the Cr. P. Code, I hereby prohibit all Mahars, Mangs, Chamars, Dheds, Bhangis and other Untouchables from exercising their alleged right of proceeding to and bathing in Lakshmana, Dhanushya, Ram and Sita Kunds, until they obtain from a Civil Court an order entitling them to bathe there.’ Thus observes Mr. L. N. Brown, District Magistrate of Nasik in the order passed today in connection with the inquiry instituted into the dispute between the Sanatanists and Untouchables in which the latter claim the right to proceed to and bathe in the Sacred Kunds.
Dealing with the question of Irish Bridge Sandhwa located near the Ram Kund, the Magistrate says that it appeared that this Sandhwa is used by the pilgrims doing the Pradakshina (a religious ceremony) or the Sacred Kunds. Its use as a thoroughfare is secondary. It is, I think, a fair deduction from the evidence
1 : The Bombay Chronicle, dated 3rd November 1931.