Ambedkar published his undelivered speech to provoke inquiry, not fame.

Evidence

While I appreciate the honour he has done me, I must confess to a sense of surprise on finding that of all people the Mahatma should accuse me of a desire to seek publicity, as he seems to do when he suggests that in publishing the undelivered speech my object was to see that I was not ‘forgotten’. Whatever the Mahatma may choose to say, my object in publishing the speech was to provoke the Hindus to think, and to take stock of their position. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 1227

Categorization

• QUESTION: The speech was undelivered after the Jat-Pat Todak Mandal withdrew the invitation; worth tracing that event’s details.
• XREF: connects to: Ambedkar launched his own journal after caste Hindus suppressed his voice — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 316; Ambedkar’s cancelled lecture became a directly published book without any public delivery
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Ambedkar launched his own journal after caste Hindus suppressed his voice — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 316; Ambedkar’s cancelled lecture became a directly published book without any public delivery