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Dust on the Throne: The Search for Buddhism in Modern India

by Douglas Ober

Received wisdom has it that Buddhism disappeared from India, 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, so the story goes, only occurred in 1956, when the Indian civil rights pioneer Dr. B.R. Ambedkar converted to Buddhis

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Publication date

2023

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9781503635036