Legislative Assembly Debates Friday 24th March 1933 Official Report

(b) The only item in these obligations whieh falls within the terms of this part of the question is the item of £16.72 millions War Contribution which represents the capital value of the liability still outstanding in respect of that portion of the liability of the 5 per cent. [...] The purpose of keeping the quarters of the non-migratory staff in separate groups is to avoid the iselaticii of tenants during the summer season and also to curtail the cost of conservancy and other services during that season. [...] Sir I have read the comments in the newspapers to the effect that I was in concert and conspiracy with Government determined to prolong my speech in order to defeat the introduction of the Untouchability Bill although I might at once say that though I am of course opposed to the intrduction of any legislative measure which would interfere with the religiouand social liberty customs and [...] So far as my Honourable friend the Raja Bahadur is concerned at any rate judging from appearances the fact that my Honourable friend Rao Bahadur Rajah the great sufferer from untouchability and the champion and protagonist of the cause of untouchability sits behind him shows that the Raja Bahadur must be a champion of the cause of the untoucables. [...] It is not necessary for me specially when I have got in the person of the Leader of the House a gentleman well-versed in Muslim law to say that the foundations of the Muslim law the law of marriage and the law of inheritance and all those laws which have been guaranteed by British Government and by the Proclamation of the Queen herself are of divine origin.