What to read after ANNIHILATION OF CASTE?

The speech prepared by me for the Jat-Pat-Todak Mandal of Lahore has had an

astonishingly warm reception from the Hindu public for whom it was primarily intended.

The English edition of one thousand five hundred was exhausted within two months of

its publication. It is translated into Gujarati and Tamil. It is being translated in Marathi,

Hindi, Punjabi and Malayalam. The demand for the English text still continues unabated.

To satisfy this demand it has become necessary to issue a Second Edition.

Considerations of history and effectiveness of appeal have led me to retain the original

form of the essay—namely the speech form—-although I was asked to recast it in the

form of a direct narrative. To this edition I have added two appendices. I have collected

in Appendix I the two articles written by Mr. Gandhi by way of review of my speech in

the Harijan, and his letter to Mr. Sant Ram, a member of the Jat-Pat-Todak Mandal. In

Appendix II, I have printed my views in reply to the articles of Mr. Gandhi collected in

Appendix 1. Besides Mr. Gandhi many others have adversely criticised my views as

expressed in my speech. But I have felt that in taking notice of such adverse comments

I should limit myself to Mr. Gandhi. This I have done not because what he has said is so

weighty as to deserve a reply but because to many a Hindu he is an oracle, so great

that when he opens his lips it is expected that the argument must close and no dog

must bark