Aakash Singh Rathore is Research Professor, Global Political Thought at the Centre for Ethics and Global Politics, Luiss University of Rome, Italy. Ajay Verma is Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Delhi.y

• EDITORS' PREFACE; B.R. AMBEDKAR' PREFACE; EDITORS' INTRODUCTION; B.R. AMBEDKAR'S INTRODUCTION AND PROLOGUE;; FROM BIRTH TO PARIVRAJA; RENUNCIATION FOR EVER; IN SEARCH OF NEW LIGHT; ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE VISION OF A NEW WAY; THE BUDDHA AND HIS PREDECESSORS; THE BUDDHA AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES; COMPARISON AND CONTRAST;; BUDDHA AND HIS VISHAD YOGA; THE CONVERSION OF THE PARIVRAJAKAS; CONVERSION OF THE HIGH AND THE HOLY; CALL FROM HOME;; CAMPAIGN FOR CONVERSION RESUMED; CONVERSION OF THE LOW AND THE LOWLY; CONVERSION OF WOMEN; CONVERSION OF THE FALLEN AND THE CRIMINALS;; HIS PLACE IN HIS DHAMMA; DIFFERENT VIEWS OF THE BUDDHA'S DHAMMA; WHAT IS DHAMMA; WHAT IS NOT DHAMMA; WHAT IS SADDHAMMA;; RELIGION AND DHAMMA; HOW SIMILARITIES IN TERMINOLOGY CONCEAL FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCE; THE BUDDHIST WAY OF LIFE; HIS SERMONS;; THE SANGH; THE BHIKKHU: THE BUDDHA'S CONCEPTION OF HIM; THE DUTIES OF THE BHIKKHU; THE BHIKKHU AND THE LAITY; VINAYA FOR THE LAITY;; HIS BENEFACTORS; HIS ENEMIES; CRITICS OF HIS DOCTRINES; FRIENDS AND ADMIRERS;; THE MEETING OF THOSE NEAR AND DEAR; LEAVING VAISHALI; HIS END;; HIS PERSONALITY; HIS HUMANITY; HIS LIKES AND DISLIKES; EPILOGUE, GLOSSARY, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX