A LETTER............HIS DHAMMA 445
My dear Dr. Ambedkar,
Your letter of the 14th September.
I rather doubt if it will be possible for us to buy a large number of copies of your book suggested by you. We had set aside a certain sum for publication on the occasion of the Buddha Jayanti. That sum has been exhausted and, in fact, exceeded. Some proposals for books relating to Buddhism being financed by us had, therefore, to be rejected. I am, however, sending your letter to Dr. Radhakrishnan, the Chairman of the Buddha Jayanti Committee.
I might suggest that your book might be on sale in Delhi and elsewhere at the time of the Buddha Jayanti celebrations when many people will come from abroad. It might find a good sale then.
Yours sincerely, (Signed) JAWAHARLAL NEHRU.
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar,
26, Alipur Road, Civil Lines,
DELHI.
Dr. S. Radhakrishnan informed on phone to Dr. B. R. Ambedkar expressing his inability to do anything in this regard.
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Khairmode, Vol. 12, Pp. 39-40.