19 Dr. Ambedkar meeting with Simon Comission in 1928
Siddhartha Chabukswar Siddhartha Chabukswar
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 Published On Mar 29, 2013

This is a short video clip from Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar movie.
Dr Ambedkar, then a Member of the Legislative Council of Bombay gave evidence before the Simon Commission concerning the Safeguards of the Depressed Classes as a minority and some early instances of atrocities against Dalits in Annexure A to the Statement submitted by him to the Indian Statutory Commission (Simon Commission) on behalf of the Bahishkrita Hitakarini Sabha on May 29, 1928, including the rioting and mass assaults on Dalits on March 20, 1927, for asserting their right to drinking water from the public Chowdar tank in Mahad, Kolaba district, and the mass assaults on and burning down of the dwellings of SC in Indore district.

Dr. Ambedkar said:

"—Depressed classes cannot be employed in the army, navy, and police because such employment is opposed to the religious notion of majority. They cannot be admitted in schools, because their entry is opposed to the religious notion of majority. They cannot avail themselves of Government dispensaries, because doctors will not let them cause pollution to their persons or to their dispensaries .They can not live cleaner and higher life, because to live above their prescribe station is opposed to the religious notion of majority."

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