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\n1891<\/strong> Born 14 April in Mhow, Madhur Pradesh\u00a0 to Ramji and Bhimabai Sankpal.<\/p>\n

1900<\/strong> His surname registered as Ambedkar after a Brahmin teacher who was kind to him.<\/p>\n

1907<\/strong> Matriculated from Elphinstone High School, Bombay.<\/p>\n

1905<\/strong> Married to Ramabai.<\/p>\n

1912<\/strong> Their son Yashwant was born, the only one of their 5 children to survive.<\/p>\n

 
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\n1913<\/strong> Passed BA in English and Persian at Elphinstone College where he had studied on a scholarship from the Maharajah of Baroda.<\/p>\n

1913<\/strong> Moved to Baroda but left on facing intense casteism.\u00a0The maharajah responded by giving him a scholarship to study at Columbia University.<\/p>\n

1916<\/strong> Moved to London and studied at LSE and Gray\u2019s Inn for DSc in Economics and for the Bar. Moved back to work in Baroda without completing his DSc because his scholarship had ended.<\/p>\n

1917<\/strong> Left Baroda finally in November after experiencing caste discrimination which blighted all aspects of his life.<\/p>\n

1918-1920<\/strong> Professor of Political Economy at Sydenham College, Bombay.
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\n1923<\/strong> Awarded DSc after returning to London to complete his doctorate.<\/p>\n

1927<\/strong> Completed thesis and awarded PhD in Economics from Columbia.<\/p>\n

1923 – 1951<\/strong> Engaged in politics and in campaigns for emancipation of Untouchables (see next panel).<\/p>\n

1947<\/strong> Became Law minister in Nehru\u2019s Government and chair of drafting committee for Indian Constitution.<\/p>\n

1951<\/strong> Resigned from the Government.<\/p>\n

 
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\n1948<\/strong> Married Savita (nee Sharda Kabir)\u2013 a Brahmin doctor.<\/p>\n

1951-1956<\/strong> Devoted his energies to studying Buddhism and exploring the idea of the conversion of Untouchables.<\/p>\n

1951<\/strong> Started to write The Buddha and his Dhamma<\/em> which was published posthumously in 1957.<\/p>\n

1956<\/strong> On 14 October, Ambedkar converted to Buddhism along with 380,000 of his followers in Nagpur.<\/p>\n

1956<\/strong> Died 6 December, aged 64.<\/p>\n

 
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\n1924<\/strong> Founded Bahishkrut Hitakarni Sabha (Depressed Classes Welfare Association). Its slogan was \u2018Educate, Agitate and Organize\u2019. This was the beginning of his leadership of the Untouchable movement.<\/p>\n

1926<\/strong> Appointed to Bombay Legislative Council and gave evidence to the Royal Commission on Currency and Finance.<\/p>\n

1927<\/strong> Chowdar Tank demonstration \u2013 From this time on Ambedkar was actively challenging attempts to keep Untouchables within Hinduism.<\/p>\n

1928-1932<\/strong> Spoke at conferences called by the British to explore constitutional reform on the road to Indian independence.
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\n1932<\/strong> Conflict with Gandhi. Ambedkar secured separate electorates for Untouchables; Gandhi opposed this and began an indefinite fast; Ambedkar was forced to compromise and signed the Poona Pact.<\/p>\n

1935<\/strong> Told Depressed Classes Conference that although he had been born a Hindu he would not die as one.<\/p>\n

1936<\/strong> Formed Independent Labour Party.
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\n1942<\/strong> Became member of Viceroy\u2019s Council with Labour portfolio.\u20281942 Discontinued ILP and founded Scheduled Castes Federation.<\/p>\n

1947<\/strong> Became member of Constituent Assembly.<\/p>\n

1947<\/strong> Became Law minister in Nehru\u2019s Government and chair of drafting committee for Indian Constitution.<\/p>\n

1948<\/strong> Submitted revised Hindu Code Bill.
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\n1951<\/strong> Revised Hindu Code Bill failed at its final reading and Ambedkar resigned.<\/p>\n

1951-1956<\/strong> Mainly devoted his energies to studying Buddhism and exploring the idea of the conversion of Untouchables.
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Dr Ambedkar dedicated his life to improving the lives of India\u2019s Untouchables socially, economically, politically and spiritually. He saw that this could only be done by breaking down the dominance of Brahminism and Caste Hindus over all aspects of Indian society:
\n
\nWhat struck me most was that my community still continues to accept a position of humiliation only because caste Hindus persist in dominating over them. You must rely on your own strength, shake off the notion that you are in any way inferior to any community.<\/em><\/p>\n

Untouchability shuts all doors of opportunities for betterment in life for Untouchables. It does not offer an Untouchable any opportunity to move freely in society; it compels him to live in dungeons and seclusion; it prevents him from educating himself and following a profession of his choice.<\/em><\/p>\n

For Ambedkar political change sprang from social and religious change:<\/p>\n

History bears out the proposition that political revolutions have always been preceded by social and religious evolutions… the emancipation of the mind and the soul is a necessary preliminary for the political expansion of a people.<\/em><\/p>\n

Although he made political alliances with Hindu anti-caste activists, and with Socialist and Communists at various times, Dr Ambedkar believed that Untouchables should take full responsibility for their own advancement and that included women as well as men:
\nI measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.<\/em><\/p>\n

My final words of advice to you are educate, agitate and organize; have faith in yourself. With justice on our side I do not see how we can lose our battle. The battle to me is a matter of joy. The battle is in the fullest sense spiritual. There is nothing material or social in it. For ours is a battle not for wealth or for power. It is a battle for freedom. It is the battle for the reclamation of human personality.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nDalit women burn baskets used to collect human waste as a sign of protest against the caste-based practice of \u2018manual scavenging\u2019, <\/i>2015.<\/em>
\n[\/et_pb_slide][et_pb_slide heading=”Resistance” image=”https:\/\/thebuddhistcentre.com\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/resisting-water-canons.jpg” use_bg_overlay=”off” use_text_overlay=”on” text_overlay_color=”rgba(168,168,168,0.9)” arrows_custom_color=”#ffffff” dot_nav_custom_color=”#ffffff” admin_title=”resistance” _builder_version=”4.16″ header_font=”||||” header_text_color=”#000000″ body_font=”||||” body_text_color=”#000000″ background_color=”rgba(255,255,255,0)” button_icon_placement=”right” button_on_hover=”on” global_colors_info=”{}” button_text_size__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_text_size__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_text_size__hover_enabled=”off” button_text_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_text_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_text_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_border_width__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_border_width__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_border_width__hover_enabled=”off” button_border_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_border_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_border_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_border_radius__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_border_radius__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_border_radius__hover_enabled=”off” button_letter_spacing__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_letter_spacing__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_letter_spacing__hover_enabled=”off” button_bg_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_bg_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_bg_color__hover_enabled=”off” sticky_transition=”on”]
\nStudents in Delhi resist water cannons while demanding action over Rohith Vemula\u2019s suicide, 2016.<\/i>
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\n
\nWhat struck me most was that my community still continues to accept a position of humiliation only because caste Hindus persist in dominating over them. You must rely on your own strength, shake off the notion that you are in any way inferior to any community.<\/em>
\n[\/et_pb_slide][et_pb_slide use_bg_overlay=”off” use_text_overlay=”on” text_overlay_color=”rgba(168,168,168,0.9)” image_alt=”Ambedkar speaking ” arrows_custom_color=”#ffffff” dot_nav_custom_color=”#ffffff” admin_title=”Intro 2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ header_font=”||||” body_font=”||||” body_text_color=”#000000″ background_color=”rgba(255,255,255,0)” button_icon_placement=”right” button_on_hover=”on” global_colors_info=”{}” button_text_size__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_text_size__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_text_size__hover_enabled=”off” button_text_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_text_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_text_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_border_width__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_border_width__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_border_width__hover_enabled=”off” button_border_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_border_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_border_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_border_radius__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_border_radius__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_border_radius__hover_enabled=”off” button_letter_spacing__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_letter_spacing__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_letter_spacing__hover_enabled=”off” button_bg_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_bg_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_bg_color__hover_enabled=”off” sticky_transition=”on”]<\/p>\n

Untouchability shuts all doors of opportunities for betterment in life for Untouchables. It does not offer an Untouchable any opportunity to move freely in society; it compels him to live in dungeons and seclusion; it prevents him from educating himself and following a profession of his choice.<\/em><\/p>\n

For Ambedkar political change sprang from social and religious change:<\/p>\n

History bears out the proposition that political revolutions have always been preceded by social and religious evolutions… the emancipation of the mind and the soul is a necessary preliminary for the political expansion of a people.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Although he made political alliances with Hindu anti-caste activists, and with Socialist and Communists at various times, Dr Ambedkar believed that Untouchables should take full responsibility for their own advancement and that included women as well as men:
\nI measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.<\/em><\/p>\n

My final words of advice to you are educate, agitate and organize; have faith in yourself. With justice on our side I do not see how we can lose our battle. The battle to me is a matter of joy. The battle is in the fullest sense spiritual. There is nothing material or social in it. For ours is a battle not for wealth or for power. It is a battle for freedom. It is the battle for the reclamation of human personality.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Dalit women burn baskets used to collect human waste as a sign of protest against the caste-based practice of \u2018manual scavenging\u2019, <\/i>2015.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Students in Delhi resist water cannons while demanding action over Rohith Vemula\u2019s suicide, 2016.<\/i><\/p>\n

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header_font=”||||” body_font=”||||” body_text_color=”#000000″ background_color=”#a8a8a8″ background_image=”https:\/\/thebuddhistcentre.com\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Dr-Ambedkar-at-Mahad-Tank.jpg” button_icon_placement=”right” button_on_hover=”on” global_colors_info=”{}” button_text_size__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_text_size__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_text_size__hover_enabled=”off” button_text_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_text_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_text_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_border_width__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_border_width__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_border_width__hover_enabled=”off” button_border_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_border_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_border_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_border_radius__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_border_radius__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_border_radius__hover_enabled=”off” button_letter_spacing__hover_enabled=”off” 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For Dalits (formerly Untouchables), access to clean drinking water has always been a source of daily suffering and a potent symbol of their oppression.<\/p>\n

In 1927 Ambedkar led the Chowdar Tank campaign to gain access to drinking water from a Tank, an artificial lake, in Mahad municipality. Despite having a legal right to draw water from it, the untouchables were prevented by the caste Hindus from going near the tank and in March 1927 10,000 untouchable representatives\u00a0 attended a\u00a0 conference in Mahad.\u00a0 Led by Dr Ambedkar they walked in procession through the town to the Chowdar tank.\u00a0 There he took water from the tank and drank it – followed by the other untouchables. For caste Hindus this polluted the water and they attacked the untouchables and later ritually purified the tank.<\/p>\n

Prevalence of this practice – nine decades after Dr Ambedkar lead the Chowdar Tank protest bears testimony to the fact that his work remains unfinished. Dalits are still illegally prevented from using public wells all over India:<\/p>\n

A dozen-odd women of Bechar village sit a few steps away from the well with their pots. They plead with youths passing by to fetch them water, but to no avail. It is over an hour and half later when finally, an old woman takes pity and starts filling up their pots, drawing water from the well. In the village of 20,000, there are 200 dalit families here whose women are made to wait on a daily basis: they cannot touch the well from which higher caste community members draw waterShardaben Solanki says her community members remain dependent on some kind-hearted Bharwad women to help them draw water from the well. \u201cWe have water supply from tube-well, but it can\u2019t be consumed. It is laden with saline and dirt. It makes you fall sick.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Now the dalit community\u00a0 is facing a boycott by upper caste villagers\u00a0 because they raised the issue of not being allowed to draw drinking water from the village well: \u201cWe are not only denied supply of essential commodities, but now they do not even give us water. Earlier, they would draw the water for us, but this has stopped now. We have to go to Bechraji town to buy water,\u201d said Chiman Vaghela.<\/em><\/p>\n

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For Dalits (formerly Untouchables), access to clean drinking water has always been a source of daily suffering and a potent symbol of their oppression.<\/p>\n

In 1927 Ambedkar led the Chowdar Tank campaign to gain access to drinking water from a Tank, an artificial lake, in Mahad municipality. Despite having a legal right to draw water from it, the untouchables were prevented by the caste Hindus from going near the tank and in March 1927 10,000 untouchable representatives\u00a0 attended a\u00a0 conference in Mahad.\u00a0 Led by Dr Ambedkar they walked in procession through the town to the Chowdar tank.\u00a0 There he took water from the tank and drank it – followed by the other untouchables. For caste Hindus this polluted the water and they attacked the untouchables and later ritually purified the tank.<\/p>\n

Prevalence of this practice – nine decades after Dr Ambedkar lead the Chowdar Tank protest bears testimony to the fact that his work remains unfinished. Dalits are still illegally prevented from using public wells all over India:<\/p>\n

A dozen-odd women of Bechar village sit a few steps away from the well with their pots. They plead with youths passing by to fetch them water, but to no avail. It is over an hour and half later when finally, an old woman takes pity and starts filling up their pots, drawing water from the well. In the village of 20,000, there are 200 dalit families here whose women are made to wait on a daily basis: they cannot touch the well from which higher caste community members draw waterShardaben Solanki says her community members remain dependent on some kind-hearted Bharwad women to help them draw water from the well. \u201cWe have water supply from tube-well, but it can\u2019t be consumed. It is laden with saline and dirt. It makes you fall sick.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Now the dalit community\u00a0 is facing a boycott by upper caste villagers\u00a0 because they raised the issue of not being allowed to draw drinking water from the village well: \u201cWe are not only denied supply of essential commodities, but now they do not even give us water. Earlier, they would draw the water for us, but this has stopped now. We have to go to Bechraji town to buy water,\u201d said Chiman Vaghela.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Dr Ambedkar\u2019s analysis of the political, economic and social position of Untouchables led him to the conclusion that in order to achieve emancipation they needed to give up being Hindus and convert to another religion:<\/p>\n

If you want to organise, consolidate and be successful in this world, change this religion. The religion that does not recognise you as a human being, or give you water to drink, or allow you to enter in temples is not worthy to be called a religion. The religion that forbids you to receive education and comes in the way of your material advancement is not worthy of the appellation \u2018religion\u2019. The religion that does not teach its followers to show humanity in dealing with its co-religionists is nothing but a display of a force. The religion that teaches its followers to suffer the touch of animals but not the touch of human beings is not a religion but a mockery. The religion that compels the ignorant to be ignorant and the poor to be poor is not a religion but a visitation!<\/em><\/p>\n

Dr Ambedkar had studied Buddhism throughout his life and had often quoted the Buddha\u2019s teachings in his speeches. During the 1930s he had explored the possibility of converting to other religions but by the 1950s he was clear that only Buddhism offered the possibility of the freedom that the Untouchables longed for:<\/p>\n

A religion which discriminates between one of its followers and another is partial and the religion which treats crores of its adherents worse than dogs and criminals and inflicts upon them insufferable disabilities is no religion at all. Religion is not the appellation of such an unjust order. Religion and slavery are incompatible.<\/em><\/p>\n

Buddha stood for social freedom, intellectual freedom, economic freedom and political freedom. He taught equality, equality not between man and man only, but between man and woman.<\/em><\/p>\n

The fundamental principle of Buddhism is equality… There was only one man who raised his voice against separatism and Untouchability and that was Lord Buddha.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Dr Ambedkar\u2019s analysis of the political, economic and social position of Untouchables led him to the conclusion that in order to achieve emancipation they needed to give up being Hindus and convert to another religion:<\/p>\n

If you want to organise, consolidate and be successful in this world, change this religion. The religion that does not recognise you as a human being, or give you water to drink, or allow you to enter in temples is not worthy to be called a religion. The religion that forbids you to receive education and comes in the way of your material advancement is not worthy of the appellation \u2018religion\u2019. The religion that does not teach its followers to show humanity in dealing with its co-religionists is nothing but a display of a force. The religion that teaches its followers to suffer the touch of animals but not the touch of human beings is not a religion but a mockery. The religion that compels the ignorant to be ignorant and the poor to be poor is not a religion but a visitation!<\/em><\/p>\n

Dr Ambedkar had studied Buddhism throughout his life and had often quoted the Buddha\u2019s teachings in his speeches. During the 1930s he had explored the possibility of converting to other religions but by the 1950s he was clear that only Buddhism offered the possibility of the freedom that the Untouchables longed for:<\/p>\n

A religion which discriminates between one of its followers and another is partial and the religion which treats crores of its adherents worse than dogs and criminals and inflicts upon them insufferable disabilities is no religion at all. Religion is not the appellation of such an unjust order. Religion and slavery are incompatible.<\/em><\/p>\n

Buddha stood for social freedom, intellectual freedom, economic freedom and political freedom. He taught equality, equality not between man and man only, but between man and woman.<\/em><\/p>\n

The fundamental principle of Buddhism is equality… There was only one man who raised his voice against separatism and Untouchability and that was Lord Buddha.<\/em><\/p>\n

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On 13 October 1935 Dr Ambedkar declared:
\nI therefore solemnly assure you that though I have been born a Hindu I will not die as a Hindu.<\/em><\/p>\n

His reasons were clear:
\nIf you continue to remain in the fold of Hinduism, you cannot attain a status higher than that of a slave. For me, personally, there is no bar. If I continue to remain an Untouchable I can attain any position that a Hindu can… But it is for your emancipation and advancement that conversion appears to be very necessary to me. To change this degraded and disgraceful existence into a golden life, conversion is absolutely necessary… I have to start conversion to improve your lot. I am not at all worried about the question of my personal interest or progress. Whatever I am doing today, it is for your betterment and in your interest.<\/em><\/p>\n

My religious conversion is not inspired by any material motive. This is hardly anything I cannot achieve even while remaining an Untouchable. There is no other feeling than that of a spiritual feeling underlying my religious conversion. Hinduism does not appeal to my conscience. My self-respect cannot assimilate Hinduism. In your case change of religion is imperative for worldly as well as spiritual ends. Do not care for the opinion of those who foolishly ridicule the idea of conversion for material ends. Why should you live under the fold of that religion which has deprived you of honour, money, food and shelter?<\/em><\/p>\n

On 14th October 1956 in Nagpur Dr Ambedkar and his wife took the three Refuges and five Precepts from U Chandramani \u2013the most senior bhikkhu in India. Dr Ambedkar then repeated the twenty two vows which he had written and in which he renounced all Hindu religious practices and vowed to follow the teachings of the Buddha. In a break with tradition, Dr Ambedkar himself then administered the same Refuges and Precepts to the 380,000 of his followers who had assembled in response to his call to convert to Buddhism. He then gave them the twenty two vows.<\/p>\n

The following day a further 100,000 people attended a conversion ceremony at the Diksha Bhumi, led by Dr Ambedkar.<\/p>\n

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\n\u2018I therefore solemnly assure you that though I have been born a Hindu I will not die as a Hindu\u2019, 1935.<\/i><\/p>\n

 
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\nGiving the 22 vows to his followers, 1956.<\/i><\/p>\n

 
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\nDr. Ambedkar and Savita Ambedkar at the ceremony in Nagpur, 14 October 1956.<\/i><\/p>\n

 
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On 13 October 1935 Dr Ambedkar declared:
\nI therefore solemnly assure you that though I have been born a Hindu I will not die as a Hindu.<\/em><\/p>\n

His reasons were clear:
\nIf you continue to remain in the fold of Hinduism, you cannot attain a status higher than that of a slave. For me, personally, there is no bar. If I continue to remain an Untouchable I can attain any position that a Hindu can… But it is for your emancipation and advancement that conversion appears to be very necessary to me.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_slide][et_pb_slide use_bg_overlay=”off” use_text_overlay=”on” text_overlay_color=”rgba(168,168,168,0.9)” image_alt=”Ambedkar speaking ” arrows_custom_color=”#000000″ dot_nav_custom_color=”#ffffff” admin_title=”Intro 2″ _builder_version=”4.16″ header_font=”||||” body_font=”||||” body_text_color=”#000000″ background_color=”rgba(255,255,255,0)” button_icon_placement=”right” button_on_hover=”on” global_colors_info=”{}” button_text_size__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_text_size__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_text_size__hover_enabled=”off” button_text_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_text_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_text_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_border_width__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_border_width__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_border_width__hover_enabled=”off” button_border_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_border_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_border_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_border_radius__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_border_radius__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_border_radius__hover_enabled=”off” button_letter_spacing__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_letter_spacing__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_letter_spacing__hover_enabled=”off” button_bg_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_one_bg_color__hover_enabled=”off” button_two_bg_color__hover_enabled=”off” sticky_transition=”on”]<\/p>\n

To change this degraded and disgraceful existence into a golden life, conversion is absolutely necessary… I have to start conversion to improve your lot. I am not at all worried about the question of my personal interest or progress. Whatever I am doing today, it is for your betterment and in your interest.<\/em><\/p>\n

My religious conversion is not inspired by any material motive. This is hardly anything I cannot achieve even while remaining an Untouchable. There is no other feeling than that of a spiritual feeling underlying my religious conversion. Hinduism does not appeal to my conscience. My self-respect cannot assimilate Hinduism.<\/p>\n

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In your case change of religion is imperative for worldly as well as spiritual ends. Do not care for the opinion of those who foolishly ridicule the idea of conversion for material ends. Why should you live under the fold of that religion which has deprived you of honour, money, food and shelter?<\/p>\n

On 14th October 1956 in Nagpur Dr Ambedkar and his wife took the three Refuges and five Precepts from U Chandramani \u2013the most senior bhikkhu in India. Dr Ambedkar then repeated the twenty two vows which he had written and in which he renounced all Hindu religious practices and vowed to follow the teachings of the Buddha.<\/p>\n

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In a break with tradition, Dr Ambedkar himself then administered the same Refuges and Precepts to the 380,000 of his followers who had assembled in response to his call to convert to Buddhism. He then gave them the twenty two vows.<\/p>\n

The following day a further 100,000 people attended a conversion ceremony at the Diksha Bhumi, led by Dr Ambedkar.<\/p>\n

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\u2018I therefore solemnly assure you that though I have been born a Hindu I will not die as a Hindu\u2019, 1935.<\/i><\/p>\n

 
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Giving the 22 vows to his followers, 1956.<\/i><\/p>\n

 
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Dr. Ambedkar and Savita Ambedkar at the ceremony in Nagpur, 14 October 1956.<\/i><\/p>\n

 
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\n<\/strong>Sangharakshita met Dr Ambedkar on three occasions and on the second Dr Ambedkar asked him how to go about converting to Buddhism. It was Sangharakshita who suggested that the conversion would have much more weight if\u00a0 it was conducted by U Chandramani, the most senior bhikkhu in India and the monk from whom Sangharakshita had received his own shramanera ordination.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/strong>Sangharakshita, at Dr Ambedkar\u2019s request, addressed 3,000 of his followers on \u2018What it means to become a Buddhist\u2019.
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\n<\/strong>In December 1956 Sangharakshita was in Nagpur when news arrived of Dr Ambedkar\u2019s death. His followers were stunned and grief-stricken and unsure how they would manage without him as their leader:
\n
\n<\/strong>Poor and illiterate as the majority of them were, and faced by the unrelenting hostility of the Caste Hindus, they did not know which way to turn and there was a possibility that the whole movement of conversion to Buddhism would come to a halt or even collapse.
\n<\/em>
\nSangharakshita addressed 100,000 of them in Kasturchand Park that night and urged them to have hope and continue the work that Dr Ambedkar had begun.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>
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Sangharakshita travelled extensively teaching and giving speeches in the new Buddhist communities of India. He delivered about 400 lectures and initiated more than 100,000 people into Buddhism:<\/p>\n

Never before had I seen the Three Refuges and Five Precepts taken with the sincerity, zeal and fervour that I saw them taken by the ex-Untouchables… I could see from the light in their eyes and the rapturous look on their faces… the ex-Untouchables were giving expression to their heartfelt conviction that Buddhism was their only hope, their only salvation.<\/em>
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\n<\/strong>After Sangharakshita\u2019s return to England, he made four teaching and speaking visits to India.
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\n<\/strong>Trailokya Bauddha Mahasangha, later Triratna Buddhist Community, founded.<\/p>\n

I [was] more than ever convinced that my approach to Buddhism was in line with that of the great Untouchable leader and that the new Buddhist movement with which so many of Ambedkar\u2019s followers were now in contact was a direct continuation of his own work for the Dharma.<\/em>
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\u2018But though Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar had been a Buddhist for only seven weeks, during that period he had probably done more for the promotion of Buddhism than any other Indian since Ashoka. At the time of this death three quarters of a million Untouchables had become Buddhists, and in the months that followed hundreds of thousands more took the same step \u2013 despite the uncertainty and confusion that had been created by the sudden loss of their great leader… This was Ambedkar\u2019s last and greatest achievement, so that even though it was as the Architect of the Constitution of Free India and the Modern Manu that he passed into official history and is today most widely remembered, his real significance consists in the fact that it was he who established a revived Indian Buddhism on a firm foundation. It is therefore as the Modern Ashoka that he really deserves to be known, and the statue standing outside the parliament building in Delhi should really depict him holding \u2018The Buddha and His Dhamma\u2019 under his arm and pointing \u2013 not for the benefit of the Untouchables only, but for the benefit of all mankind \u2013 in the direction of the Three Jewels\u2019,<\/em> Sangharakshita.<\/p>\n

\u2018Wherever I went I moreover saw, as I had seen time and time again all those years ago, how overwhelmingly grateful Ambedkar\u2019s followers were for whatever Buddhist teaching they received. This time, however, they would not have to wait for years before they heard another lecture on Buddhism. This time they were in contact with a new Buddhist movement, a movement that was the direct continuation of Ambedkar\u2019s work for the Dharma, so that even after I had gone there would be plenty of opportunities for them to hear lectures, to learn how to meditate, and to go on retreat. There would, in short, be plenty of opportunities for them to practise Buddhism, and it was in the individual and collective practice of Buddhism that \u2013 Ambedkar believed \u2013 they would find the inspiration which would enable them, after centuries of oppression, to transform every aspect of their lives\u2019,<\/em> Sangharakshita writing about a teaching tour in the winter of 1981-82.<\/p>\n

\u2018The greatest thing the Buddha has done is to tell the world that the world cannot be reformed except by the reformation of the mind of man and the mind of the world.\u2019
\n<\/strong><\/em>Dr. Ambedkar.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u2018But though Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar had been a Buddhist for only seven weeks, during that period he had probably done more for the promotion of Buddhism than any other Indian since Ashoka. At the time of this death three quarters of a million Untouchables had become Buddhists, and in the months that followed hundreds of thousands more took the same step \u2013 despite the uncertainty and confusion that had been created by the sudden loss of their great leader… This was Ambedkar\u2019s last and greatest achievement, so that even though it was as the Architect of the Constitution of Free India and the Modern Manu that he passed into official history and is today most widely remembered, his real significance consists in the fact that it was he who established a revived Indian Buddhism on a firm foundation. It is therefore as the Modern Ashoka that he really deserves to be known, and the statue standing outside the parliament building in Delhi should really depict him holding \u2018The Buddha and His Dhamma\u2019 under his arm and pointing \u2013 not for the benefit of the Untouchables only, but for the benefit of all mankind \u2013 in the direction of the Three Jewels\u2019,<\/em> Sangharakshita.<\/p>\n

\u2018Wherever I went I moreover saw, as I had seen time and time again all those years ago, how overwhelmingly grateful Ambedkar\u2019s followers were for whatever Buddhist teaching they received. This time, however, they would not have to wait for years before they heard another lecture on Buddhism. This time they were in contact with a new Buddhist movement, a movement that was the direct continuation of Ambedkar\u2019s work for the Dharma, so that even after I had gone there would be plenty of opportunities for them to hear lectures, to learn how to meditate, and to go on retreat. There would, in short, be plenty of opportunities for them to practise Buddhism, and it was in the individual and collective practice of Buddhism that \u2013 Ambedkar believed \u2013 they would find the inspiration which would enable them, after centuries of oppression, to transform every aspect of their lives\u2019,<\/em> Sangharakshita writing about a teaching tour in the winter of 1981-82.<\/p>\n

\u2018The greatest thing the Buddha has done is to tell the world that the world cannot be reformed except by the reformation of the mind of man and the mind of the world.\u2019
<\/strong><\/em>Dr. Ambedkar.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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