00899nam a22001097a 4500008004100000100002200041245009900063260004200162300004800204520049500252773004200747260625b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aChakravarti, Uma   aBuddhism, secular humanism and another way of being: Some thought on Ambedkar’ s conversion   aIndia International Center Quarterly   a52 (3&4), Winter 2025- Summer 2026: p.87-99  a As a young scholars beginning PhD research project in history I was drawn to a study of Buddhism, perhaps prompted by an old memory that lingered subconsciously was 16 years old and in my final year of high school when B.R. Ambedkar ‘s conversion from Hinduism to Buddhism in 1956 was reported. The public reaction was striking even as K know little about Ambedkar, his expertness with east oppression or his declaration at a gathering in Yeola near Nasik in October 1935. –Reproduced   aIndia International Center Quarterly