00956nam a22001337a 4500 533801 533801 260625b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Chakravarti, Uma 61342 Buddhism, secular humanism and another way of being: Some thought on Ambedkar’ s conversion India International Center Quarterly 52 (3&4), Winter 2025- Summer 2026: p.87-99 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 India International Center Quarterly AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 408981 IIPA IIPA 2026-06-25 52 (3&4), Winter 2025- Summer 2026: p.87-99 AR139263 2026-06-25 AR