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ACTION BY GOVERNMENT IN AUGUST 1942
WAS JUSTIFIABLE
Replying to the address of the Ahmedabad Municipality, presented on 30th November 1945* Dr. B. R. Ambedkar remarked that the drastic action taken by the Government in August 1942 was justifiable ; otherwise India would have been over-run by the Japanese and the Germans. This justification of the repression of the Government of the ‘Quit India’ movement roused the sentiment of the poeple and added to their earlier prejudices. It was the main cause of the unbridgeable gap that separated the Depressed Classess from the rest of the people during the years of the struggle for freedom.” [1]
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*Janata, dated 1st and 8th December 1945.
- : Kuber, B. R. Ambedkar, P. 58.