BOMBAY: The Working Committee of the All-India Scheduled Castes Federation adopted a resolution yesterday [Jan 18], seeking to submit to the United Nations Assembly, the case of “the sufferings of the Scheduled Castes in India against the Hindus for their acts of social, economic and political tyranny”.

… The Committee approved the memorandum prepared by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, former member of the Viceroy’s Executive Council and Scheduled Caste leader for submission to the UNO… . The memorandum, among other complaints, added that the “tyranny and the constant and shameless resort to violence by Hindus makes position of the Scheduled Castes far worse than the position of Indians in South Africa”. The memorandum also complains of the “failure of the British Government to give protection and do justice to the Scheduled Castes,” and requests the intervention of the UNO for “necessary international action”.

…Dr. Ambedkar referring to the “sufferings of the Scheduled Castes” in India, compared them with the condition of Negroes in U.S.A. who are, he said, as much tyrannised by White America as Scheduled Castes are by Caste Hindus.

Published in Dawn, January 19th, 2022