PREFATORYIn presenting the 6th volume of the writings and speeches of late Dr. B. R. alias Babasaheb Ambedkar, the State Government has the satisfaction of fulfilling its promise and commitment though not in a full measure but substantially.
The volume contains reprints of (1) Problem of the Rupee, (2) Evolution of Provincial Finance in British India and it also contains a unique document which is almost a graphic socio-economic balance-sheet of the British rule in India viz.
his dissertation on the administration and finance of the East India Company. It is, as readers will judge for themselves, an outstanding achievement for a young man of 24 years that was Dr. Ambedkar in 1915
Apart from these writings, the volume also contains occasional essays, reviews and other miscellaneous reflections on socio-economic topics of the day. In all these writings, Dr. Ambedkar emerges as a profound thinker with strong awareness of his immediate environment. He could see the Indian society of his time in contact with the liberal influences of Western education and like other eminent Indians of the day, he recognised the need for synthesis and assimilation of Western critical outlook with the emerging social ethos of democracy and the welfare state.