What Congress and Gandhi have Done to the Untouchables / Dr. B. R. Ambedkar

“In 1892, there took place in England a new election to Parliament, in which the Conservatives headed by Lord Salisbury lost and the Liberals headed by Mr. Gladstone won. The remarkable thing about this election was that notwithstanding the defeat of his party at the polls. Lord Salisbury—contrary to Parliamentary convention—refused to surrender his office to the leader of the Liberal Party. When Parliament assembled, the Queen delivered the usual gracious speech from the throne containing the legislative programme of Lord Salisbury’s Government and the usual address to Her Majesty was moved from the Government side. Lord Salisbury’s Government was an illegitimate Government. It was a challenge to the fundamental principle of the British Constitution, which recognised parliamentary Majority as the only title deed for a Party’s right to form a Government. The Liberals took up the challenge and tabled an amendment to the address. The amendment sought to condemn Lord Salisbury’s Government for its insistence on continuing in office, notwithstanding the fact that it had no majority behind it. The task of moving the amendment was entrusted to the late Lord (then Mr.) Asquith. In his speech in support of the amendment, Mr. Asquith used the now famous phrase—” Causa finita est: Roma locuta est.” (Rome has spoken and the dispute must end). The phrase was originally used by St. Augustine but in a different context. It Was used in the course of a religious controversy and had come to be used as a foundation for Papal Sovereignty. Mr. Asquith used it as a political maxim embodying the basic principle of Parliamentary Democracy. Today it is accepted as the fundamental principle on which Popular Government rests, namely, the Right of a Political Majority to Rule. It told instantaneously against Salisbury’s Government and must tell against all parties who fail at the polls wherever Parliamentary Democracy is in operation.
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Contents

Chapter I A Strange Event

Chapter II A Sabby Show Congress Abandons Its Plan

Chapter III A Mean Deal Congress Refuses To Part With Power

Chapter IV An Abject Surrender congress beats an inglorious retreat

Chapter V A Political Charity Congress Plan to Kill Untouchables by Kindness

Chapter VI A False Claim

Chapter VII A False Charge Are Untuchableshe Tools of the British?

Chapter VIII The Real Issue Aren't The Untouchables A Separate Element ?

Chapter IX A Plea To The Foreigner Let not Tyranny Have Freedom to Enslave

Chapter X What Do The Untouchables Say? Beware Of Mr. Gandhi .

Chapter XI Gandhism The Doom of the Untouchables

Appendix I Shradhanand On Bardoli Programe For Untouchables

Appendix II Political Safequards For Depressed Classes

Appendix III Minorities Pact

Appendix IV Statement by B.R.Ambedkar On Gandhi's Fast

Appendix V Temple Entry In Travancore

Appendix VI Recognition of Untouchables As A Separate Element

Appendix VII Minorities And Weight-age

Appendix VIII Cripps Proposals

Appendix IX Objections To Oripps Proposals

Appendix X Correspondence Between Lord Wavell And Mr.Gandhi, 1944

Appendix XI Political Demands Of Scheduled Castes

Appendix XII Communal Distribution Of Population By

Appendix XIII Communal Distribution of Population By Minorities In Indian States

Appendix XIV Particulars of Scheduled Castes Constituencies In Regard To Seats And Voting Strength Province ;By Province

Appendix XV Particulars Regarding Election, To Seats Reserved For Scheduled Castes Province By Province

Appendix XVI The Wavell Plan