Babasaheb Dr B.R Ambedkar

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EDITORIAL
Part—III What then shall we do?
Chapter 1—Marx and the European Social Order
Chapter 2—Manu and the Hindu Social Order
Dr. Ambedkar could complete only Chapters 4 and 5 of the scheme
viz., “The Hindu Social Order” and “The Basis of the Hindu Social Order”.
It appears that when it struck to him that he should deal with two more
topics in Part III he added those two topics in his own handwriting on
the typed page. In the same well-bound file of typed material, there
appears a page entitled “Can I be a Hindu?” which bears his signature
in pencil and a table of contents on the next page as follows :
Introduction
Symbols of Hinduism
Part-I—Caste
Part-II—Cults—Worship of Deities
Part-III—Superman
The third page bears sub-titles of the chapters as follows:
1. Symbols represent the soul of a thing
2. Symbols of Christianity
3. Symbols of Islam
4. Symbols of Jainism
5. Symbols of Buddhism
6. Symbols of Hinduism
7. What are the Symbols of Hinduism?
Three
1. Caste.
2. Cults—
(1) Rama
(2) Krishna
(3) Shiva
(4) Vishnu
3. Service of Superman
The plan as designed above remains incomplete except for the chapter
on, “Symbols of Hinduism”.
The 24 riddles as proposed in his original plan were changed often in
blue-print by Dr. Ambedkar. The seriatim of the contents and chapters
and the arrangement of the file did not synchronize. The chapters have
been arranged according to the table of contents in Vol. 4.
At the end we are confident that our time and our pains will not
go unrewarded when Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar’s hitherto unpublished
works will be brought in a proper form before the general public as well
as interested scholars.