![]() ![]() Ambedker declared in response that he “would not change a comma” of his text. They wrote to Ambedkar seeking the removal of sections which they found, in their words, “unbearable.”. The organisers found some of the content to be objectionable towards the orthodox Hindu religion, so intemperate in the idiom and vocabulary used, and so incendiary in promoting conversion away from Hinduism, that they sought the deletion of large sections of the more controversial content endangering Brahmanical interests. ![]() Ambedkar wrote the speech as an essay under the title “Annihilation of Caste” and sent in advance to the organisers in Lahore for printing and distribution. Ambedkar to deliver a speech on the caste system in India at their annual conference in 1936. In a letter dated 12 December 1935, the secretary of the Jat-Pat Todak Mandal (Society for the Abolition of Caste system), an anti-caste Hindu reformist group organisation based in Lahore, invited B. R. ![]()
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