Dr. B. R. Ambedkar's Conversion to Buddhism and the Way out to Progress Society

Dr. B.R.Ambedkar has put his mark on Indian society which millions of the downtrodden people have been somewhat have sustainability because of his efforts. So he was called the father of Indian Constitution. He remarked, "The religion which discriminates between two followers is partial and the religion which treats crores of its adherents worse than dogs and criminals and inflicts upon them insufferable disabilities is no religion at all. He wanted to have a religion in the sense of 'spiritual principles', truly 'universal' and applicable to all times, to all countries and to all races. He concluded that this religion must be destroyed and there was nothing irreligious in working for the destruction of such a religion. The newly converted Buddhists themselves were convinced that they were very inaccurate indeed and that the number of Buddhists in India was actually far greater than the census returns showed, and in this they were undoubtedly right, though perhaps not quite to the extent that some of them believed. Some of those who thus remained suspended in a kind of limbo, able neither really to leave the hell of Hinduism and caste nor really to enter the heaven of Buddhism and equality, were unwilling to declare themselves Buddhists because they were afraid that, if they did so, they would be subject to harassment by the more militant Caste Hindus, who in some places were actually attacking and killing the newly converted Buddhists for daring to renounce their ancestral religion. He wanted to have a religion in the sense of 'spiritual principles', truly 'universal' and applicable to all times, to all countries and to all races.