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028			_a: Technical Bureau India _b: E/262, Shastri Nagar, Delhi. _c: TB3709 _d: 08/02/2024
028			_a: Zafaa Books & Distributors _b: 313/103A, H.No. 15, Tulsi Nagar, Inderlok, Delhi. _c: ZBD0119 _d: 29/07/2024
028			_a; Brijwase Book Distributors _b: H-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, Delhi _c: BW/00092 _d: 21/12/2024
082			_a813.54 OBE
100			_aOber, Douglas.
245			_aDust on the Throne _b: The Search for Buddhism in Modern India. _c/ Douglas Ober.
260			_a, New Delhi _b: Navayana PubPublishing _c, 2023.
300			_a391p. _c: 24cm.
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520			_aReceived wisdom has it that Buddhism disappeared from the land of its birth between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, long forgotten until British colonial scholars re-discovered it in the early 1800s. Its full-fledged revival, the story goes, occurred in 1956, when the Indian constitutionalist and civil rights pioneer, Dr B.R. Ambedkar, converted to Buddhism along with half a million of his Dalit followers. Dust on the Throne provides a radically new perspective on what has long been called India’s modern Buddhist revival. Through extensive examination of disparate materials held in archives and temples across South Asia, Douglas Ober explores Buddhist religious dynamics through the course of expanding colonial empires, intra-Asian connectivity, and the intellectual pursuits of nineteenth and twentieth century Indian thinkers. Dust on the Throne recovers the integral role of lesser-known Indian anti-caste activists and non-Indian Buddhist monastics in the making of modern global Buddhism. Ober also accounts for the powerful influence Buddhism exerted in shaping modern Indian history.
650			_aDr B.R. Ambedkar
650			_a Buddhism
650			_aBuddhist monastics
700			_aDouglas Ober
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