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But Dalits -- who constitute over 16 percent of India's 1.1-billion population -- are still often beaten or killed if they use a well or worship at a temple reserved for upper castes.

(RNS) — Many Buddhists today trace their social justice activism to the work of BR Ambedkar, the Indian caste abolitionist who once led a mass conversion of Dalits, or lower caste, to Buddhism.

But to D.B. Sagar, a Dalit activist originally from Nepal, Hinduism and Buddhism can coexist — even in the same household, incorporating both Hindu pujas and Buddhist mantras.