RETRO-INTROSPECTION ON RELIGIOUS DEBATE AND CONFLICT IN POST-COLONIAL INDIA AND POSSIBLE SUGGESTIONS TO IMPROVE THE SITUATION

Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, Mahatma Gandhi and others tried to give some solutions and these solutions are workable ones. Ambedkar, a messiah for the dalits in India adopted Buddhism and gave a complete makeover to this religion, called it as Navayana or Neo-Buddhism; and Gandhi spoke of intra-religious, inter-religious dialogue and dialogue on conflicts between religious groups having complex causes. (Douglas, 2008) Indeed there are many activists in India who have tried and are trying to resolve this divide; but these two names remain prominent.