162 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
place. Bear it well in mind that I have not abandoned this movement. Several Hindus say to me ‘our eyes have been opened as a result of your agitation for (lit. Question of) conversion. As we have now been awakened we shall not now fail in our duty towards you; do therefore withdraw your movement of conversion.’ But I do not intend to withdraw the movement of the very reasons which I have related till now. Consider (the matter) thoroughly, and the new (lit. other) religion to be adopted must be adopted only after a close searching examination (lit. after heating and testing as in the case of gold). I hope that hereafter all the members of the Mahar community will act just in the manner decided by the Mahar Conference.”* [1]
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1 : *Extract from Station Diary of Bhoiwada Police Station, dated Thursday, the 27th May 1937,12-10 a.m..
This speech of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar and the resolutions were published in Janata, dated 4th September 1937.—Editors.