The caste-annihilation speech sold out its first English edition within two months
Evidence
The speech prepared by me for the Jat-Pat Todak Mandalb 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 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
- QUESTION: The speech’s explosive popularity among precisely the Hindu orthodox audience it attacked is worth understanding — the reading project on how caste annihilation scaled would benefit from knowing what drove this demand.
- XREF: connects to: Annihilation of Caste sold out its first English print run within two months; Annihilation of Caste’s 1937 second edition sold out quickly and stayed in public demand. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 755; Ambedkar’s caste abolition speech sold out rapidly and spread across Indian languages
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Annihilation of Caste sold out its first English print run within two months; Annihilation of Caste’s 1937 second edition sold out quickly and stayed in public demand. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 755; Ambedkar’s caste abolition speech sold out rapidly and spread across Indian languages
Broader Connections
- Annihilation of Caste sold out its first English print run within two months
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