Ambedkar’s conversion

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Conversion: Social and Political Idea of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar

by rti_adminon November 2, 2022March 20, 202316

Ankush Uttam Helode “Unfortunately, I was born a Hindu untouchable but I will not die a Hindu” (DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR: WRITINGS AND SPEECHES, Vol-3,pg98) With a view to reviewing the political and social situation in the light of his ten-year-old relentless social struggle, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar decided to hold a conference of the Depressed …

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Return to which home?

by rti_adminon December 24, 2014March 20, 20230

Gopal Guru On October 14, 1956, Babasaheb Ambedkar, along with several hundred thousand “untouchables”, embraced Buddhism. The moral and ethical strength of Ambedkar’s embrace of Buddhism lies in its cultural and intellectual capacity to sustain among the ex-untouchables a growing association with it. Conversion as a cultural-intellectual movement that took off in October 1956 …