42 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
Mr. V. B. Karnik, the Secretary of the Bombay Maharashtra Youth Mandal drew attention to a resolution passed by it, aiming at the abolition of the inquitous system of castes and the differences made on grounds of religion and sect by organising inter-caste dinners and encouraging inter-caste marriages and promised that the Mandal would always give its whole-hearted support to the League, which was already in the field in such national work.
Mr. M. R. Menon, said that he had come there to wish Godspeed to Dr. Ambedkar in the righteous work he had undertaken of procuring for the the so-called Untouchables the most elementary human right of drinking water from a public tank at Mahad.” [1]
“In spite of Government Resolution, Untouchables were not allowed to draw water in 1932, the Bombay Government instituted a Committee consisting of Symington, I. C. S., and Zakeria Maniyar, to inquire into the condition of the Depressed Classes in the Nasik District. One of the chapters of the report revealed that in that District there were as many as eleven hundred District Local Board wells from which the Untouchables were not allowed to draw water in spite of the Government Resolution of 1923.” [2]
In the mean time a legal struggle in between Caste Hindus and Depressed Classes was going on in various Courts. Following is the abstract of these incidents.
“ Appeal Heard in Thana District Court
Thana, March 20.
Mr. B. N. Sanjana, District Judge, Thana, heard to-day an appeal filed by Pandurang Waman dharap and others of Mahad against the judgement of Mr. Vaidya, Subordinate Judge, Mahad, dissolving an interim injunction granted by him previously against the Mahad Untouchables for bidding them from using the Chawdar Tank.
1 : The Indian National Herald, dated 15th March 1928.
2 : Keer, P. 197.