APPENDIX—VIII
SECRET 1934/34 S. B. Memo No.
39-Bihar-37*
THE BIHAR PROVINCIAL
DEPRESSED CLASSES LEAGUE
It is learnt confidentially that Jagjiwan Ram, B. Sc. President, Bihar Prov. Depressed Classes League, Patna has sent a letter, dated 8th March 1937 to Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, Bar-at-Law, Rajgraha, Dadar, Bombay. The contents of which are given below :—
“ U NITE A ND O RGANISE ”
Bankipur, Patna, the 8th March 1937.
No. 41
My dear Doctor Saheb,
I have your kind letter of the 3rd instant. If your brochure on caste has run out, kindly send one copy of it so that I may commence its translation.
As desired by you, I am sending a list of candidates who contested the election. I must admit that we made a pact with the Congress and as a result of the pact 9 persons of the League have been returned. They have signed the League pledge and also the Congress pledge with certain reservations. Perhaps you know that here in Bihar there is no organised party except the Congress. The minister of Local Self-Government i.e. Sir Ganesh Dutt Singh was trying to have his party but he could not organise it. We made the pact with the Congress at the eleventh hour i.e. on the 29th October 1936 and the nomination papers were to be filed by the 3rd November 1936. We the Depressed Classes have begun our movement very late here and have got little organisation. But the experience we have gained in the recent election goes to show that if we carry on our work for the coming
- BIHAR C I. D EPARTMENT S PECIAL B RANCH, Patna, dated the 10 March
- Copy of a Special Officer’s report, dated 9th March 1937.