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Conversion as Sacred Rupture and Continuity: Reimagining Ambedkar’s 1956 Buddhist Conversion in Dalit Religious Narratives
- Shaohua Zhang and
- Yuanyuan Yan
This article examines how B. R. Ambedkar’s 1956 Buddhist conversion is re-narrativized in Mahar Dalit life writing as a foundational religious event that simultaneously embodies rupture and continuity. Drawing on three Marathi Dalit texts, Akka...