Nivedita Menon

What Ambedkar’s conversion tells us about caste and belonging today

Seventy years after B R Ambedkar’s conversion to Buddhism, his decision still speaks to unresolved questions of caste, religious belonging and ecological justice. Revisiting his break with Hinduism reveals why the promise of annihilating caste remains unfinished business in India

• Nivedita Menon
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