Babasaheb Dr B.R Ambedkar

EDITORIAL
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known of Dr. Ambedkar’s work and thought, did Shri Moon arrive at
the present selection and arrangement of those MS.
This task was not merely strenuous at the intellectual level but also
at the physical one due to the condition of the papers themselves. These
had been stored in the closed boxes for more than 30 years. They were
fumigated with insecticides, with the result that a most poisonous foul
odour emitted from these papers. Shri Moon and his staff had to suffer
infection of the skin and eyes and required medical treatment.
After two years of strenuous work, Shri Moon had submitted a
detailed report to the Editorial Board on 17th September 1983 containing
recommendations as to the proper arrangement of the three volumes
which were to come out, out of unpublished writings and presentation
of the papers as they were to appear in a published form. The present
volume consisting of various essays on Untouchables and Untouchability
is substantially in accordance with these recommendations.
After the proposed arrangements had been approved by the Dr.
Babasaheb Ambedkar Source Material Publication Committee in its
meeting dated 23rd September 1986, Shri Moon and his staff took on the
task associated with publication, i.e. editing, proof reading, indexing etc.
Execution of this laborious work for this 5th volume, like all the
previous volumes, has been carried out by Mr. Vasant Moon with the
assistance of his staff consisting of Shri L. R. Meher, Shri S. A. Waghmare
and Smt. Usha Nevarekar.
In the papers that the Editorial Board scrutinised, we have come
across 51 titles of unpublished writings (including 31 of ‘Riddles in
Hinduism’). In addition to these, we have received several unpublished
essays of Dr. Ambedkar from Shri S. S. Rege, the Ex-Librarian of the
Siddharth College, Bombay. The essays received from Shri Rege are
shown by asterisk in the list mentioned below. Not all these essays are
complete. All the essays have been divided into three volumes as under:
VOLUME 3 :
1. Philosophy of Hinduism
2. The Hindu Social Order : Its Essential Principles
3. The Hindu Social Order : Its Unique Features
4. Symbols of Hinduism
5. Ancient India on Exhumation
6. The Ancient Regime—The State of the Aryan Society
7. A Sunken Priesthood
8. Reformers and Their Fate