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Ambedkar’s conversion to Buddhism (1956)
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14 Oct 1956 — B. R. Ambedkar, framer of the constitution, renounced Hinduism and took Buddhist vows with several hundred thousand followers, most of them Dalits of the Mahar community. The law had abolished untouchability; he had concluded that the social order would not. He died seven weeks later, on 6 December 1956.
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