Making Of The Dome Of Dignity Deekshabhoomi Saga Of Ambedkars Dhamma Revolution And Its Impact On Nation Building Harishchandra Sukhdeve by Harishchandra Sukhdeve 9789388132039, 9388132033 instant download after payment.

“Making of the Dome of Dignity: Deekshabhoomi” is a riveting story of a historic moment. A moment that comes but rarely in one’s life. A moment witnessed and experienced by half a million people personally. A moment which changed the course, not only, of their own life but that of life of the nation and life of the religion.
That historic moment was of discarding of their religion, Hinduism by Dr B R Ambedkar, an architect of the Constitution of India. That historic moment was of embracing Buddhism in 1956. The moment was pathbreaking because Hinduism was and still is highly engaging, ritualistic religion. Buddhism had all but vanished from India. Hardly anybody knew it, or knew its worth in India.
Dr Ambedkar and almost ninety percent of his countrymen suffered social segregation of varying degrees on the basis of their Caste. Caste is defined on birth by one’s ancestral profession. Some professions just forced upon them even in the present days.
Some Castes suffered not only segregation but also complete lack of freedom about anything and everything of life. Ambedkar’s own Caste was one of these sufferers of the worst kind of segregation. His was Untouchable slaves for the whole of Hindu society. The Slavery system in Hinduism was not simple master & slave kind of a system, like the racial slavery of Blacks in America. Slavery in Hinduism had many masters, rather the all of upper castes for the same slave. Black slavery was tangible and hence could be abolished by a stroke of legislation. Hindutva slavery is intangible, invisible and still profound in its impact on one’s life.
Ambedkar challenged this Hindu Social System. He launched his version of Freedom Struggle, freedom from social and religious slavery under Hinduism. His freedom struggle was on two fronts. One against his own countrymen, the high-caste Hindus and second against the British. His one front was reforming Hinduism and ensuring Constitutional rights for the segregated classes, whom he called ‘Depressed Classes’. His second front was securing Independence from the British. He did ensure Constitutional Rights for ‘Depressed Classes’ but could not reform his own religion, Hinduism even after waiting for long 21 years.
He eventually had to discard his religion of birth to embrace Buddhism in 1956 along with his half a million followers. Ambedkar’s search for nationhood started from Mahad revolution in 1927 to reform his own religion, travelled through various agitations for temple entry to political and economic rights through constitution making and culminated in Dhamma Revolution at Nagpur in 1956. The place of his ordination in Nagpur has evolved into a world-famous memorial known as Deekshabhoomi.
Ashoka, the Great, who built his empire on the strength of righteous principles of non-violence and non-aggression, had written his edicts on hill rocks and stone pillars. He built thousands of Stupas in memory of Buddha all across the Indian sub-continent.
Dr. B R Ambedkar was not an emperor with any regalia, of any territory, but still an emperor of hearts of the millions. His actions were equally path breaking. After Ashoka the Great, Ambedkar virtually set in motion the wheel of Dhamma, yet again. Dhamma to be the guiding force for the governance of the nation and also that of the Indian society. Ambedkar tried to bridge the gap between contradictions in the laws of governance and laws of the society. The historic event of introducing Buddhism to millions of Indian masses took place at Nagpur. The symbol of that revolutionary event is now standing with pride on the grounds of Deekshabhoomi. The grand Stupa stands testimony to the path breaking mission for social freedom Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar had accomplished in his life.
“Making of the Dome of Dignity: Deekshabhoomi” is a story of Ambedkar’s Dhamma Revolution and its impact on nation building over a period of past 60 years.