[1:] On December 12, 1935, I received the following letter from Mr. Sant Ram, the Secretary of the Jat-Pat-Todak Mandal:
My dear Doctor Saheb,
Many thanks for your kind letter of the 5th December. I have released it
for press without your permission for which I beg your pardon, as I saw
no harm in giving it publicity. You are a great thinker, and it is my
well-considered opinion that none else has studied the problem of Caste
so deeply as you have. I have always benefited myself and our Mandal
from your ideas. I have explained and preached it in the Kranti many
times and I have even lectured on it in many Conferences. I am now very
anxious to read the exposition of your new formula—"It is not possible
to break Caste without annihilating the religious notions on which it,
the Caste system, is founded." Please do explain it at length at your
earliest convenience, so that we may take up the idea and emphasise it
from press and platform. At present, it is not fully clear to me.
* * * * *
Our Executive Committee persists in having you as our President for our
Annual Conference. We can change our dates to accommodate your
convenience. Independent Harijans of Punjab are very much desirous to
meet you and discuss with you their plans. So if you kindly accept our
request and come to Lahore to preside over the Conference it will serve
double purpose. We will invite Harijan leaders of all shades of opinion
and you will get an opportunity of giving your ideas to them.
The Mandal has deputed our Assistant Secretary, Mr. Indra Singh, to meet
you at Bombay in Xmas and discuss with you the whole situation with a
view to persuade you to please accept our request.
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