{"id":1363,"date":"2001-11-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-11-11T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/11\/11\/2001-11-11-empowered-dalits-convert-to-a-new-home\/"},"modified":"2001-11-11T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-11-11T12:00:00","slug":"2001-11-11-empowered-dalits-convert-to-a-new-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/11\/11\/2001-11-11-empowered-dalits-convert-to-a-new-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Empowered Dalits Convert to a New Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/articleshow.asp?art_ID=1605155423\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>HIVALI, INDIA, November 11, 2001: In Uttar Pradesh, Dalits are taking Buddhist vows and firing parting shots at the upper castes.  Leading the movement is Udit Raj, an income-tax official who headed the November 4 conversion ceremony of thousands of &#8220;outcaste&#8221; Hindus to Buddhism in Delhi. &#8220;Since we were thwarted in Delhi [by the police preventing more Dalits from attending], I will now carry it on in villages,&#8221; says the president of the All-India Confederation of Scheduled Castes\/Scheduled Tribe Organisations. Of the 7,000 residents of this dusty village, 3,000 are Dalits. Udit Raj says: &#8220;Embracing Buddhism is a sort of homecoming for us. Buddhism, after all, was born here.&#8221; A forest of hands goes up when he asks, &#8220;How many of you will further propagate the Buddhist message? Let nobody address you as a Dalit. Tick him off and tell him to address you as a Bodhi.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE HIVALI, INDIA, November 11, 2001: In Uttar Pradesh, Dalits are taking Buddhist vows and firing parting shots,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}