![]() ![]() Gandhi preferred to keep the depressed classes within the Hindu fold, to reform Hinduism from within, and to avoid special rights for depressed classes. During the independence movement, he and Mahatma Gandhi disagreed over the best approach to gaining rights for lower castes. Ambedkarīorn into the depressed classes, Bhimrao ("Babasaheb") Ambedkar was educated in Mumbai (Bombay) at Elphin-stone College, then in New York at Columbia University, and in London at the London School of Economics and the Inns of Court before returning to India to eventually become the greatest leader of the Dalits. ![]() After two decades of religious study, negotiation, and deliberation, Ambedkar and approximately 400,000 to 600,000 of his followers converted to Buddhism in Nagpur, India, on 14 October 1956, followed by many more conversions in the ensuing years. He encouraged his followers to convert as well, yet left open the question of which religion he and his followers would ultimately choose. ![]() In 1935 Ambedkar announced that he would not die a Hindu. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956), independent India's first law minister, was a leader, scholar, and activist of the "depressed classes," or untouchables, who are now known as Dalits (meaning the "oppressed" or "crushed"). ![]()
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