५८० डॉ. बाबासाहेब आंबेडकर लेखन आणि भाषणे
l hope that your health will permit you to spare some time.
Yours sincerely,
Vimal Mehrotra.
CC: (1) Sri D.V. Goswamy, Civil Lines, Allahabad.
(2) Dr Rammanohar Lohia, Hyderabad.
(3) G. N. Saxena, Socialist Party, 4, Pan Dariba, Lucknow.
Vil
LETTER TO MADHU LIMAYE |
HYDERABAD, 1-7-1957.
Dear Madhu,
1 have found the correspondence with and concerning Dr. Ambedkar and I am having it sent to you. You can well understand that my sorrow at Dr. Ambedkar’s sudden death has been and is somewhat personal. Ithad always been my ambition to draw him into our fold, not only organizationally but also in full ideological sense, and that mornent seemed to be approaching.
Of course, I would not like you even for a moment to read this correspondence with the back-gfound of our common personal loss. Dr. Ambedkar was to me, a great man in Indian politics, and apart from Gandhiji, as great as the greatest of caste Hindus. This fact had always given me solace and confidence that the caste system of Hinduism could one day be destroyed.
1 have always been trying to communicate to the Harijans of India, an idea which is basic with me. Dr. Ambedkar and Sri Jagjivan Ram are the two types of modern Harijans in India. Dr. Ambedkar was learned, a man of integrity, courage and independence; he could be shown to the outside world as a symbol of upright India, but he was bitter and exclusive. He refused to become a leader of non-Harijans. Ican well understand the agony of the last 5,000 years to and their continuing impact on the . Harijans. But that is precisely the point. Such a great Indian as