14 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
The letter is as follows :
THE ALL INDIA DEPRESSED CLASSES CONGRESS
Office-Vishram Hall, Lakadganj Cir. 15/10 Nagpur city Dated the 1st February, 1930.
Reception Committee Chairman—K. G. Nandagawali, Vice-Chairman—D. L. Patil, Treasurer—V. S. Sawaithool, Secretaries—L. K. Ogale, MLC, Hardas L. N., P. K. Bhatkar, H. D. Behade.
To, Mr. S. J. Kamble,* Poona,
Dear Sir,
You are aware of the proposed Round Table Conference is to be held in London next autumn to discuss the future political Constitution of India. I am sure, you will agree that the Depressed Classess must at this critical juncture assert themselves and make it clear to the power that be as to what safeguards and guarantees the future Constitution of India must contain for the protection of their civic right. The discussion of this momentous issue requires the immediate attention of our people. To bring out people from the different Provinces of India together for the purpose of this discussion we have in consultation with Dr. Ambedkar, M. A., Ph. D., D. Sc, Bar-at-Law, MLC, Bombay, thought convening an All India Depressed Classess Congress at Nagpur some time immediately after the publication of the Report of the Simon Commission and have in anticipation of your consent formed a Reception Committee.
- Shivram Janaba Kamble —An Untouchable leader from Poona who had a unique distinction of convening the first Conference of Untouchables in India. Prominent leader of pre-Ambedkar era, the editor of a ‘Somavanshiya Mitra’ Poona, he sent a memorandum to the British Govt. in 1910, appealing to them to enlighten and elevate the Untouchables.