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1891 to 1956, Maharashtra, India
The annihilation of caste, a constitution for a republic, and a rational Buddhism of liberty, equality, and fraternity.
Start learning B. →Ambedkar's radical claim that caste is not a division of labour but a division of labourers - a hierarchy of graded inequality rooted in religion and mind - and that it cannot be reformed, only abolished, by destroying…
At the end of his life Ambedkar led half a million followers out of Hinduism and into Buddhism - but a Buddhism remade: Navayana , a rational, this-worldly faith of liberty, equality, and fraternity, stripped of superst…
As chief architect of independent India's Constitution, Ambedkar sought to secure by law the equality caste denied - and warned that a constitution is only as good as the ‘constitutional morality’ of those w…
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