Dr. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._R._Ambedkar" id="mw3A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="B. R. Ambedkar">B. R. Ambedkar</a>, leader of India's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalit" id="mw3Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Dalit">Untouchable caste</a>, converts to Buddhism along with 385,000 of his followers (see <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Buddhism" id="mw3g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Neo-Buddhism">Neo-Buddhism</a>).