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|caption=[[Deekshabhoomi]] monument, located in [[Nagpur]], [[Maharashtra]], where [[B. R. Ambedkar]] converted to Buddhism in 1956, is the largest [[stupa]] in Asia.<ref>{{cite news|last=Bhagwat|first=Ramu|title=Ambedkar memorial set up at Deekshabhoomi|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2001-12-19/mumbai/27228796_1_dr-ambedkar-narayanan-smarak-samiti|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131016083900/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2001-12-19/mumbai/27228796_1_dr-ambedkar-narayanan-smarak-samiti|url-status=dead|archive-date=16 October 2013|accessdate=1 July 2013|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|date=19 December 2001}}</ref>
|caption=[[Deekshabhoomi]] monument, located in [[Nagpur]], [[Maharashtra]], where [[B. R. Ambedkar]] converted to Buddhism in 1956, is the largest [[stupa]] in Asia.<ref>{{cite news|last=Bhagwat|first=Ramu|title=Ambedkar memorial set up at Deekshabhoomi|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Ambedkar-memorial-set-up-at-Deekshabhoomi/articleshow/189472379.cms|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131016083900/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2001-12-19/mumbai/27228796_1_dr-ambedkar-narayanan-smarak-samiti|url-status=live|archive-date=16 October 2013|access-date=1 July 2013|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|date=19 December 2001}}</ref>
|population = {{flag|India}} 6,531,200 (2011)
|population = {{flag|India}} 6,531,200 (2011)
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'''Marathi Buddhists''' ({{lang|mr-Latn|Marāṭhī Baud'dha}}) are [[Buddhist]]s of [[Marathi people|Marathi ethnic]] and [[Marathi language|linguistic]] [[Identity (social science)|identity]]. The religious community resides in the [[Indian state]] of [[Maharashtra]]. They speak [[Marathi language|Marathi]] as their [[mother-tongue]] (first language). The Marathi Buddhist community is the largest Buddhist community in India. According to the 2011 Indian census, Marathi Buddhists constitute 5.81% of the population in Maharashtra, which is 77% of the total Buddhist population in India.<ref name="census2011">{{cite web|title=Population by religion community – 2011|url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/C-01/DDW00C-01%20MDDS.XLS|website=Census of India, 2011|publisher=The Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150825155850/http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/C-01/DDW00C-01%20MDDS.XLS|archivedate=25 August 2015}}</ref>
'''Marathi Buddhists''' ({{lang|mr-Latn|Marāṭhī Bauddha}}) are [[Buddhist]]s of [[Marathi people|Marathi ethnic]] and [[Marathi language|linguistic]] [[Identity (social science)|identity]]. The religious community resides in the [[Indian state]] of [[Maharashtra]]. They speak [[Marathi language|Marathi]] as their [[mother-tongue]] (first language). The Marathi Buddhist community is the largest Buddhist community in India. According to the 2011 Indian census, Marathi Buddhists constitute 5.81% of the population in Maharashtra, which is 77% of the total Buddhist population in India.<ref name="census2011">{{cite web|title=Population by religion community – 2011|url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/C-01/DDW00C-01%20MDDS.XLS|website=Census of India, 2011|publisher=The Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150825155850/http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/C-01/DDW00C-01%20MDDS.XLS|archive-date=25 August 2015}}</ref>


==History==
==History==
[[File:Dr. Ambedkar delivering speech during conversion.jpg|thumb|Ambedkar delivering speech during conversion, Nagpur, 14 October 1956]]
[[File:Dr. Ambedkar delivering speech during conversion.jpg|thumb|Ambedkar delivering speech during conversion, Nagpur, 14 October 1956]]


Almost all Marathi Buddhists belong to the [[Navayana]] tradition, a 20th-century [[Dalit Buddhist movement|Buddhist revival movement]] in India that received its most substantial impetus from [[B. R. Ambedkar]] who called for the conversion to Buddhism by rejecting the [[Caste system in India|caste]]-based society of Hinduism, that considered them to be the lowest in the hierarchy.<ref>{{cite book|title=Political Ideas in Modern India: thematic explorations |author1=Thomas Pantham |author2=Vrajendra Raj Mehta |author3=Vrajendra Raj Mehta |year= 2006|publisher=Sage Publications|isbn=0-7619-3420-0|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KJejtAaonsEC&pg=PA48 |page=48}}</ref>
Almost all Marathi Buddhists belong to the [[Navayana]] tradition, a 20th-century [[Dalit Buddhist movement|Buddhist revival movement]] in India that received its most substantial impetus from [[B. R. Ambedkar]] who called for the conversion to Buddhism by rejecting the [[Caste system in India|caste]]-based society of Hinduism. This was through a socio-religious movement and the term "Navayana" was used to "simplify the present cultural complexities" in other sects of Buddhism. Overall this was not a completely new sect culturally and ritually as it borrows most of its traditions from Theravada sect of Sri Lanka.
 
B. R. Ambedkar publicly converted on 14 October 1956, at [[Deekshabhoomi]], [[Nagpur]], over 20 years after he declared his intent to convert. He converted approximately 600,000 people to Buddhism.<ref name="Buswell2013p34">{{cite book|author1=Robert E. Buswell Jr.|author2=Donald S. Lopez Jr.|title=The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DXN2AAAAQBAJ |year=2013| publisher= Princeton University Press|isbn =978-1-4008-4805-8|page=34}}</ref> The conversion ceremony was attended by Medharathi, his main disciple Bhoj Dev Mudit, and Mahastvir Bodhanand's Sri Lankan successor, Bhante Pragyanand.<ref name="maren_roots"/> Ambedkar asked the oppressed classes not to get entangled in the existing branches of Buddhism (Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana), and called his version [[Navayana]] or 'Neo-Buddhism'. Ambedkar would die less than two months later, just after finishing his definitive work on Buddhism. Many Buddhists employ the term "Ambedkarite Buddhism" to designate the Buddhist movement, which started with Ambedkar's conversion.<ref name="maren_roots">{{Cite book|last=Bellwinkel-Schempp|first=Maren|chapter=Roots of Ambedkar Buddhism in Kanpur|editor-last=Jondhale|editor-first=Surendra|editor2-last=Beltz|editor2-first=Johannes|title=Reconstructing the World: B.R. Ambedkar and Buddhism in India|location=New Delhi|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|pages=221–244|chapter-url=http://www.maren-bellwinkel.de/artikel/ambedkarbuddhism.pdf|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120801180947/http://www.maren-bellwinkel.de/artikel/ambedkarbuddhism.pdf|archive-date=1 August 2012}}</ref> Converted people call themselves "Bauddha" i.e. Buddhists.
B. R. Ambedkar publicly converted on 14 October 1956, at [[Deekshabhoomi]], [[Nagpur]], over 20 years after he declared his intent to convert. He converted approximately 600,000 people to Buddhism.<ref name="Buswell2013p34">{{cite book|author1=Robert E. Buswell Jr.|author2=Donald S. Lopez Jr.|title=The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DXN2AAAAQBAJ |year=2013| publisher= Princeton University Press|isbn =978-1-4008-4805-8|page=34}}</ref> The conversion ceremony was attended by Medharathi, his main disciple Bhoj Dev Mudit, and Mahastvir Bodhanand's Sri Lankan successor, Bhante Pragyanand.<ref name="maren_roots"/> Ambedkar asked Dalits not to get entangled in the existing branches of Buddhism (Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana), and called his version [[Navayana]] or 'Neo-Buddhism'. Ambedkar would die less than two months later, just after finishing his definitive work on Buddhism. Many Buddhists employ the term "Ambedkarite Buddhism" to designate the Buddhist movement, which started with Ambedkar's conversion.<ref name="maren_roots">{{Cite book|last=Bellwinkel-Schempp|first=Maren|chapter=Roots of Ambedkar Buddhism in Kanpur|editor-last=Jondhale|editor-first=Surendra|editor2-last=Beltz|editor2-first=Johannes|title=Reconstructing the World: B.R. Ambedkar and Buddhism in India|location=New Delhi|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|pages=221–244|chapter-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120801180947/http://www.maren-bellwinkel.de/artikel/ambedkarbuddhism.pdf|url-status=bot: unknown|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120801180947/http://www.maren-bellwinkel.de/artikel/ambedkarbuddhism.pdf|archivedate=1 August 2012|url=http://www.maren-bellwinkel.de/artikel/ambedkarbuddhism.pdf}}</ref> Converted people call themselves "-Bauddha" i.e. Buddhists.


==Population==
==Population==
[[File:District wise Buddhist population percentage, India census 2011.png|thumb|District wise Buddhist population percentage, India census 2011. India's West-centre area, [[Maharashtra]] shows Marathi Buddhist population.]]
[[File:District wise Buddhist population percentage, India census 2011.png|thumb|District wise Buddhist population percentage, India census 2011. India's West-centre area, [[Maharashtra]] shows Marathi Buddhist population.]]


Almost all Marathi Buddhists are converts from [[Hinduism]]. Most Buddhist Marathi people belong to the former [[Mahar]] community who adopted Buddhism with Ambedkar in 1956.<ref>{{cite book|last=Jaffrelot|first=Christophe|authorlink=Christophe Jaffrelot|title=Dr Ambedkar and Untouchability: Analysing and Fighting Caste|year=2005|publisher=Orient Blackswan Publisher|isbn=8178241560|pages=119–131|chapter=The ‘Solution’ of Conversion}}</ref><ref name="zelliot">{{cite book |editor-last=Smith |editor-first=Bardwell L. |title=Religion and the Legitimation of Power in South Asia |year=1978 |publisher=Brill |location=Leiden |isbn=9004056742 |pages=88–90 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x2Jzn_LuLasC&pg=PA88 |first=Eleanor |last=Zelliot |authorlink=Eleanor Zelliot |chapter=Religion and Legitimation in the Mahar Movement}}</ref>
Almost all Marathi Buddhists are converts from [[Hinduism]]. Most Buddhist Marathi people belong to the former [[Mahar]] community who adopted Buddhism with Ambedkar in 1956.<ref>{{cite book|last=Jaffrelot|first=Christophe|author-link=Christophe Jaffrelot|title=Dr Ambedkar and Untouchability: Analysing and Fighting Caste|year=2005|publisher=Orient Blackswan Publisher|isbn=8178241560|pages=119–131|chapter=The ‘Solution’ of Conversion}}</ref><ref name="zelliot">{{cite book |editor-last=Smith |editor-first=Bardwell L. |title=Religion and the Legitimation of Power in South Asia |year=1978 |publisher=Brill |location=Leiden |isbn=9004056742 |pages=88–90 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x2Jzn_LuLasC&pg=PA88 |first=Eleanor |last=Zelliot |author-link=Eleanor Zelliot |chapter=Religion and Legitimation in the Mahar Movement}}</ref>


In the 1951 census of India, In Maharashtra, 2,487 (0.01%) respondents said they were Buddhist. The 1961 census, taken after B. R. Ambedkar adopted Navayana Buddhism with his millions of followers in 1956, showed an increased to 2,789,501 (7.05%).<ref>Kantowsky, Detlef (1997). [https://www.buddhismuskunde.uni-hamburg.de/pdf/4-publikationen/buddhismus-in-geschichte-und-gegenwart/bd2-k06kantowsky.pdf Buddhisten in Indien heute], Indica et Tibetica 30, 111</ref>
In the 1951 census of India, In Maharashtra, 2,487 (0.01%) respondents said they were Buddhist. The 1961 census, taken after B. R. Ambedkar adopted Navayana Buddhism with his millions of followers in 1956, showed an increase to 2,789,501 (7.05%).<ref>Kantowsky, Detlef (1997). [https://www.buddhismuskunde.uni-hamburg.de/pdf/4-publikationen/buddhismus-in-geschichte-und-gegenwart/bd2-k06kantowsky.pdf Buddhisten in Indien heute], Indica et Tibetica 30, 111</ref>


Marathi Buddhists account for 77.36% of all [[History of Buddhism in India|Buddhists in India]].<ref name="census2011"/> According to the [[2011 Census of India]] there are 6.5 million Buddhists in Maharashtra but Buddhist leaders claim there are about 10 to 12 million Buddhists in Maharashtra. Among cities [[Mumbai]] has largest Buddhist population accounting for 4.85% of total Mumbai population. Almost 90 per cent of [[Navayana]] Buddhists live in the state.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://m.asianews.it/index.php?art=3482&l=en|title=INDIA Indian Buddhists reject religious census|website=m.asianews.it}}</ref> 5,204,284 (79.68%) Marathi Buddhists belong to the [[Scheduled Caste]] category.<ref>{{cite news|title=बौद्ध बढ़े, चुनावी चर्चे में चढ़े|url=https://aajtak.intoday.in/story/huge-increase-in-the-population-of-dalit-budhist-in-india-1-872858.html|accessdate=30 January 2018|work=aajtak.intoday.in|language=hi}}</ref>
Marathi Buddhists account for 77.36% of all [[History of Buddhism in India|Buddhists in India]].<ref name="census2011"/> According to the [[2011 Census of India]] there are 6.5 million Buddhists in Maharashtra but Buddhist leaders claim there are about 10 to 12 million Buddhists in Maharashtra. Among cities [[Mumbai]] has largest Buddhist population accounting for 4.85% of total Mumbai population. Almost 90 per cent of [[Navayana]] Buddhists live in the state.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://m.asianews.it/index.php?art=3482&l=en|title=INDIA Indian Buddhists reject religious census|website=m.asianews.it}}</ref> 5,204,284 (79.68%) Marathi Buddhists belong to the [[Scheduled Caste]] category.<ref>{{cite news|title=बौद्ध बढ़े, चुनावी चर्चे में चढ़े|url=https://aajtak.intoday.in/story/huge-increase-in-the-population-of-dalit-budhist-in-india-1-872858.html|access-date=30 January 2018|work=aajtak.intoday.in|language=hi}}</ref>


==Notable Marathi Buddhists==
==Notable Marathi Buddhists==
{{main|List of Marathi Buddhists}}
 
{{Cat see also|Indian Buddhists|Ambedkarites}}
[[File:Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar.jpg|right|thumb|[[B. R. Ambedkar]], Marathi scholar and the revivalist of [[Buddhism in India]]]]
* [[B. R. Ambedkar]] (1891–1956), jurist, barrister, and first Law and Justice Minister of India
* [[R. D. Bhandare]] (born 1916), governor of Bihar and Andhra Pradesh
* [[Bhushan Gavai]] (born 1960), the current and 52nd [[Chief Justice of India]]<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=petWCgAAQBAJ&q=r+s+gavai+religion&pg=PT170|title=Living with Religious Diversity|last1=Sikka|first1=Sonia|last2=Puri|first2=Bindu|last3=Beaman|first3=Lori G.|author3-link=Lori G. Beaman|date=2015-08-11|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781317370987|language=en}}</ref>
* [[Sunil Baliram Gaikwad]] Member of Parliament 16th loksabha, author, advocate
* [[B. C. Kamble]] (born 1919), jurist and lawyer
* [[Sanjay Bansode]], state minister of Maharashtra<ref name="divyamarathi.bhaskar.com">{{Cite web|url=https://divyamarathi.bhaskar.com/news/23-ministers-belong-to-the-maratha-community-in-thackeray-government-126408482.html|title=उद्धव ठाकरे सरकारच्या ४३ सदस्यीय मंत्रिमंडळात २३ मंत्री मराठा समाजाचे|date=December 31, 2019|website=Divya Marathi}}</ref>
* [[Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare]], Governor of Odisha
* [[B. D. Khobragade]], Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha
* [[Mukul Wasnik]], Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment
* [[Nashikrao Tirpude]], first Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra
* [[Raja Dhale]] (1940–2019), social activist and writer
* [[Namdeo Dhasal]] (1949–2014), Padma Shri social activist and writer


==Culture==
==Culture==
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* [[Ambedkar Jayanti|Babasaheb Ambedkar Jayanti]], public holiday in Maharashtra
* [[Ambedkar Jayanti|Babasaheb Ambedkar Jayanti]], public holiday in Maharashtra
* [[Dhammachakra Pravartan Day]], public holiday in Maharashtra
* [[Dhammachakra Pravartan Day]], public holiday in Maharashtra
* [[Vesak]], public holiday in Maharashtra
* [[Asalha Puja|Ashadha Puja]]
* [[Magha Puja]]


==See also==
==See also==
* [[Buddhist Society of India]]
* [[Dalit Buddhist movement]]
* [[Dalit Buddhist movement]]
* [[Lord Buddha TV]]
* [[Marathi people]]
* [[Marathi people]]
* [[Religion in Maharashtra]]
* [[Religion in Maharashtra]]
* [[Buddhism in Mizoram]]


==References==
==References==
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[[Category:Buddhism in Maharashtra]]
[[Category:Buddhist communities of India]]
[[Category:Buddhist communities of India]]
[[Category:Demographics of India]]
[[Category:Demographics of India]]
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Marathi Buddhists
Deekshabhoomi monument, located in Nagpur, Maharashtra, where B. R. Ambedkar converted to Buddhism in 1956, is the largest stupa in Asia.[1]
Total population
 India 6,531,200 (2011)
Regions with significant populations
Maharashtra
Languages
Marathi
Religion
Navayana Buddhism
Related ethnic groups
Marathi people

Marathi Buddhists (Marāṭhī Bauddha) are Buddhists of Marathi ethnic and linguistic identity. The religious community resides in the Indian state of Maharashtra. They speak Marathi as their mother-tongue (first language). The Marathi Buddhist community is the largest Buddhist community in India. According to the 2011 Indian census, Marathi Buddhists constitute 5.81% of the population in Maharashtra, which is 77% of the total Buddhist population in India.[2]

History[edit | edit source]

Ambedkar delivering speech during conversion, Nagpur, 14 October 1956

Almost all Marathi Buddhists belong to the Navayana tradition, a 20th-century Buddhist revival movement in India that received its most substantial impetus from B. R. Ambedkar who called for the conversion to Buddhism by rejecting the caste-based society of Hinduism. This was through a socio-religious movement and the term "Navayana" was used to "simplify the present cultural complexities" in other sects of Buddhism. Overall this was not a completely new sect culturally and ritually as it borrows most of its traditions from Theravada sect of Sri Lanka. B. R. Ambedkar publicly converted on 14 October 1956, at Deekshabhoomi, Nagpur, over 20 years after he declared his intent to convert. He converted approximately 600,000 people to Buddhism.[3] The conversion ceremony was attended by Medharathi, his main disciple Bhoj Dev Mudit, and Mahastvir Bodhanand's Sri Lankan successor, Bhante Pragyanand.[4] Ambedkar asked the oppressed classes not to get entangled in the existing branches of Buddhism (Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana), and called his version Navayana or 'Neo-Buddhism'. Ambedkar would die less than two months later, just after finishing his definitive work on Buddhism. Many Buddhists employ the term "Ambedkarite Buddhism" to designate the Buddhist movement, which started with Ambedkar's conversion.[4] Converted people call themselves "Bauddha" i.e. Buddhists.

Population[edit | edit source]

District wise Buddhist population percentage, India census 2011. India's West-centre area, Maharashtra shows Marathi Buddhist population.

Almost all Marathi Buddhists are converts from Hinduism. Most Buddhist Marathi people belong to the former Mahar community who adopted Buddhism with Ambedkar in 1956.[5][6]

In the 1951 census of India, In Maharashtra, 2,487 (0.01%) respondents said they were Buddhist. The 1961 census, taken after B. R. Ambedkar adopted Navayana Buddhism with his millions of followers in 1956, showed an increase to 2,789,501 (7.05%).[7]

Marathi Buddhists account for 77.36% of all Buddhists in India.[2] According to the 2011 Census of India there are 6.5 million Buddhists in Maharashtra but Buddhist leaders claim there are about 10 to 12 million Buddhists in Maharashtra. Among cities Mumbai has largest Buddhist population accounting for 4.85% of total Mumbai population. Almost 90 per cent of Navayana Buddhists live in the state.[8] 5,204,284 (79.68%) Marathi Buddhists belong to the Scheduled Caste category.[9]

Notable Marathi Buddhists[edit | edit source]

B. R. Ambedkar, Marathi scholar and the revivalist of Buddhism in India

Culture[edit | edit source]

Marathi Buddhists are celebrating 62nd Dhammachakra Pravartan Din at Aurangabad Caves area in Aurangabad, Maharashtra on 18 October 2018.

Festivals[edit | edit source]

See also[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ Bhagwat, Ramu (19 December 2001). "Ambedkar memorial set up at Deekshabhoomi". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 16 October 2013. Retrieved 1 July 2013.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Population by religion community – 2011". Census of India, 2011. The Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Archived from the original on 25 August 2015.
  3. ↑ Robert E. Buswell Jr.; Donald S. Lopez Jr. (2013). The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism. Princeton University Press. p. 34. ISBN 978-1-4008-4805-8.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Bellwinkel-Schempp, Maren (2004). "Roots of Ambedkar Buddhism in Kanpur" (PDF). In Jondhale, Surendra; Beltz, Johannes (eds.). Reconstructing the World: B.R. Ambedkar and Buddhism in India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. pp. 221–244. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 August 2012.
  5. ↑ Jaffrelot, Christophe (2005). "The 'Solution' of Conversion". Dr Ambedkar and Untouchability: Analysing and Fighting Caste. Orient Blackswan Publisher. pp. 119–131. ISBN 8178241560.
  6. ↑ Zelliot, Eleanor (1978). "Religion and Legitimation in the Mahar Movement". In Smith, Bardwell L. (ed.). Religion and the Legitimation of Power in South Asia. Leiden: Brill. pp. 88–90. ISBN 9004056742.
  7. ↑ Kantowsky, Detlef (1997). Buddhisten in Indien heute, Indica et Tibetica 30, 111
  8. ↑ "INDIA Indian Buddhists reject religious census". m.asianews.it.
  9. ↑ "बौद्ध बढ़े, चुनावी चर्चे में चढ़े". aajtak.intoday.in (in हिन्दी). Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  10. ↑ Sikka, Sonia; Puri, Bindu; Beaman, Lori G. (2015-08-11). Living with Religious Diversity. Routledge. ISBN 9781317370987.
  11. ↑ "उद्धव ठाकरे सरकारच्या ४३ सदस्यीय मंत्रिमंडळात २३ मंत्री मराठा समाजाचे". Divya Marathi. December 31, 2019.

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