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THIRUVANANTHAPPURAM, INDIA, May 26, 2002: According to this Times of India article, more than 200 people belonging to scheduled castes and tribes (or dalits, the lowest strata of Indian society) on Sunday embraced the Buddhist religion in a mass conversion program organized by the SC/ST All India Confederation, Kerala, and the Lord Buddha Universal Society. However, a report from HPI correspondent G.K. Nair in Kerala states only a few dozen converted in a function held on Buddha Purnima day. One dalit leader said that by embracing Buddhism, the dalits who had been denied justice all these years had chosen the path of awakening.

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