212 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
Bhimrao : If H. H. Maharaja gives me due opportunity, I shall manage to do all the things.
H. H. Maharaja : I have been thinking on the same lines. I am thinking sending you to America will you go?
Bhimrao : Yes Sir.
H. H. Maharaja : Now you can go. Send an application of foreign proposed study to our Academic Officer asking for a scholarship and inform me accordingly.” [1]
“He advised him to apply for one of the scholarships which his State had advertised. He did so, and the Maharaja decided to send Bhimrao along with three other students for higher education. Bhimrao was called to Baroda. On June 4,1913, he signed an agreement before the Assistant Minister for Education of the Baroda State, agreeing to devote his time to studying the prescribed subjects and to serve for ten years the Baroda State after completion of his studies.” [2]
The Memorandum of Agreement is as follow:
“Memorandom of Agreement made the fourth of June
1913, between the Government of His Highness the Gaekwad of Baroda, on the one part, and Mr. Bhimrao R. Ambedkar, B. A., an inhabitant of Baroda* on the other part.
It is agreed between the Government of His Highness the Maharaja Gaekwad and Bhimrao R. Ambedkar as follows :—
(1) Mr. Ambedkar Bhimrao R. undertakes to proceed to America to be trained up Finance and Sociology in the Columbia University, New York, and to obtain the Master’s degree in Economics, Finance and Sociology, staying there for a period of two years or more as may be hereafter considered necessary. During the period he shall stay under general supervision of Dr. H. C. Pumpus.
1 : Khairmode, Vol. l, Pp. 63-64.
2 : Keer, P. 26.
- Should be ‘Bombay’ See Appendix VII for other details also.