Ananya Vajpeyi: Conversion as a Political Choice

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NEW YORK, Novmber 7, 2012 — Author Ananya Vajpeyi discusses with poilitcal theorist and historian Partha Chatterjee the political role of Buddhism and B.R. Ambedkar's conversion to the religion as he worked to craft the Constitution for what is now modern India.

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