Undated letter from Dr. B.R. Ambedkar to W.E.B. Du Bois, most likely written in 1946. The letter inquires about the National Negro Congress petition to the United Nations, which attempted to secure the rights of minority through the U.N. council.

Du Bois papers preserve at least one exchange between Du Bois and Ambedkar, initiated by the following undated letter from Ambedkar:

Dear Prof. Dubois,

Although I have not met you personally, I know you by name as everyone does who is working in the cause of securing liberty to the oppressed people. I belong to the Untouchables of India and perhaps you might have heard my name. I have been a student of the Negro problem and have read your writings throughout. There is so much similarity between the position of the Untouchables in India and of the position of the Negroes in America that the study of the latter is not only natural but necessary.

I was very much interested to read that the Negroes of America have filed a petition to the U.N.O. The Untouchables of India are also thinking of following suit. Will you be so good as to secure for me two or three copies of this representation by the Negroes and send them to my address. I need hardly say how very grateful I shall be for your troubles in this behalf.

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