Content of Volume 1:

This volume includes seminal works such as “Castes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development,” “Annihilation of Caste,” “Maharashtra as a Linguistic Province,” “Need for Checks and Balances,” “Thoughts on Linguistic States,” and “Ranade, Gandhi and Jinnah”.

Context:

The publication was part of a larger project to compile and publish the writings and speeches of Dr. Ambedkar, spearheaded by the Maharashtra Government and later supported by the Centenary Celebrations Committee constituted under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister of India.