WHY BISWAS IS A BUDDHIST?

Why Biswas is a Buddhist?
Biswas is a Buddhist for his cultural Roots and Ethnic identity, Family Values and the Public Service of the Constitution of India that he joined.
Biswas is a Buddhist for his spiritual heritage and ethnic identity as his clan Banga was the original inhabitants of deltaic Bengal and like the other non-Aryan indigenous clans of Ancient Bengal viz. the Pundras,Bagadhas and Kaibartas, embraced Buddhism. Buddhism has been traced in stone up to 450 B.C; 30 years after the death of the Master in the region of East Bengal (now Bangladesh) where the Banga clan were the overwhelming majority. The Bangas stubbornly resisted the Aryan advance in Banga after the fall of their King of Banga clan of Pala Dynasty and after the overthrow of their own King, they were persecuted by the orthodox invading King and assigned untouchable grade in caste hierarchy of Aryandom. Most of the clan, leaving only a fraction of their original strength, ‘dropped off in conversion to Islam’ ( Chatterjee, SP; Bengal in Maps, Orient Longmans Ltd, Calcutta, 1948, p.48.) during Muslim rule to escape the descent based discrimination. Those of Banga clan who remained in Hindu fold, their Hinduization was not complete as late as in 19th century and they were returned in 1872 Census of India as ‘Semi-Hinduised Aboriginal’ like many other clans of Bengal.
The eldest uncle of Biswas, Late Umesh Chandra Biswas, feared and respected, a mighty leader of great reputation of Banga clan of Gopalganj of East Bengal, (an area of present Bangladesh,) trained Biswas to fight against immorality, superstition and social inequality.
Biswas, after joining a distinguished public service created by the Constitution of India, took solemn oath of total allegiance to the Constitution of India and soon discovered that the Constitution of India included the Buddhist concept of Dharmachakra- The Law of morality, which was adopted by Asoka, the greatest Emperor of India, who treated all people in his charge as his children and governed them by Dhamma- The Law of Morality.
Therefore, it was very natural, inevitable and right for him to scrape the caste identity, (“There are ever so many institutions which are worked into our social fabric like caste and untouchability. Unless these are scrapped, we cannot say that we either seek truth or practice virtue. This wheel is a rotating thing, which is a perpetually revolving thing, indicates to us that there is death in stagnation. There is life in movement.”- Dr. Radhakrishan, Adoption of Dharmachakra in the National Flag of India in the Constituent Assembly of India,22 July 1947.) slapped on his ancestors by the licentious Aryan King( Ray, Niharanjan, Bangalir Itihas, Calcutta, 1980.) and throw it in the dustbin of history and return to original and scientific Buddhism, his original spiritual identity( resurrected by Ambedkar, a great social and political scientist, economist, jurist and chairman of the drafting committee of the Constituent Assembly of India, who with more than half a million of his followers returned to Buddhism on 14 October 1956, without dropping a single blood and went down in the history as the greatest non-violent social revolutionary of 20th century) which is in total conformity with his family values , the Constitution of India and the public service that he joined.
U.N.Biswas
February12, 2009
Salt Lake City, Calcutta-700091.