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YOUR SALVATION MUST LIE IN YOUR OWN HANDS
Leaving the tome-packed loft in which he had buried himself throughout Sunday, the 26th April 1942 busy collecting yet more material for his next bomb-shell. “What the Hindus have Done To Us”, the scholarly Dr. B. R. Ambedkar rushed to the Kamgar Maidan, Bombay in the evening to talk of bombs or co-operation.
Presentation of a purse in celebration of his Golden Jubilee was the occasion for the stupendous crowd, which gathered as for a fair but left with a battle-cry from ten thousand resounding throats.
“I don’t want celebration of my birthday any more” he declared.
The soothing calm voice of Dr. Ambedkar developed into a thunder as he roared : Most treacherously have the British Government let us down. The Cripps proposals were meant to placate the Congress and the League in the hour of Britain’s difficulties and to sacrifice the Depressed Classes. The demands of the Congress and the League were mutually and violently conflicting and the British in accepting the demands of both ensured the total rejection by both. Thank God for it.
The Depressed Classes have been saved from a disaster. But the menace may raise its head again. Next time that happens you will have to be ready for action, I don’t care what action, constitutional or unconstitutional, violent or non-violent, peaceful or disturbing.
Offer To Congress
The votary of constitutional practice then gave an inkling into the possibility of his next jubilee being celebrated as a revolutionary.