ISBN10: 8120830237, ISBN13: 9788120830233, [publisher: Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi] Softcover Contents Preface. 1. The significance of Ambedkar. 2. Three meetings. 3. The hell of caste. 4. Milestones on the road to conversion. 5. The search for roots. 6. Thinking about Buddhism. 7. The great mass conversion. 8. The Buddha and His Dhamma. 9. After Ambedkar. Notes. Further reading. On the morning of 14 October 1956 at a mass rally in the Indian town of Nagpur four hundred thousand men and women turned their backs on a millennium of degradation and slavery. Finally renouncing Hinduism with its cruel system of graded inequality they turned instead to Buddhism in search of dignity hope and a path to self improvement. Over the coming months Hindu India shook as hundreds of thousands more followed their example and as the Buddha Dhamma came back to life in the land of its birth. The man solely responsible for this historic revival was Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar lawyer politician and educationalist India's first law minister chief architect of her Constitution and lifelong champion of her downtrodden millions. Born an Untouchable in village India where he was deemed unfit to drink water from public wells or to sit with children from higher caste families in the classroom Ambedkar's entire career was to become nothing less than an outright challenge to the beliefs and conventions of his society. Now as that career neared its end he was embarking on the most controvers ...

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