THIS IS A COLLECTION OF SELECTED SPEECHES OF LAXMAN MANE IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. SOME ISSUES RELATED TO NOMADIC CASTES-TRIBES, RESERVATIONS, COMMUNALISM, ASHRAM SCHOOLS, CONSTITUTION OF INDIA, HEALTH, NAME CHANGE, BUREAUCRACY, INDUSTRY, BABRI MASJID, EMPLOYMENT, DEVDASI, MARATHI AS OFFICIAL LANGUAGE, WOMEN ETC. ARE COVERED THROUGH HIS SPEECHES. HE THROWS LIGHT ON EXPLOITATION OF NOMADIC TRIBES BY THE SOCIETY AND THEIR NEGLECT BY THE GOVERNMENT. BESIDES THIS, HE ELABORATES ON THE CORRUPTION INVOLVED IN VARIOUS WELFARE SCHEMES FOR THEM. READERS ARE EXPOSED TO THE MISTAKES MADE IN CLASSIFYING THESE PEOPLE AND THE RESULTING CONFUSION, THE DELIBERATE ALIENATION OF THESE PEOPLE FROM EDUCATION, THE LAWS REGARDING CRIMINAL TRIBES AND THE HARDSHIPS IT CAUSES TO THESE TRIBES; THE MEAGER FINANCIAL BENEFITS THEY GET ALONG WITH THE POOR STATE OF ASHRAM SCHOOLS AND THE INDIFFERENCE OF THE GOVERNMENT TOWARDS THEM. HE HAS PRIMARILY DRAWN ATTENTION TO THE TROUBLES FACED BY NOMADIC CASTES AND TRIBES, DISREGARD BY UPPER CASTE SOCIETY AND POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS FOR THEIR PROGRESS IN THIS BOOK.
