Annihilation of Caste sold out its first English print run within two months
Evidence
The English edition of one thousand five hundred copies was exhausted within two months of its publication. It has been translated into Gujarati and Tamil. It is being translated into 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. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 751
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
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