01690nam a22002177a 450000500170000000800410001702000210005804000090007904100080008808200220009610000170011824500750013526000400021030000300025036500330028052010790031365000270139265000200141965000140143970000190145320220328152744.0220328b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a‎9789350293430  cAloy  aeng  223a954.035bSHOW  aArun Shourie  aWorshipping false Gods:bAmbedkar and the facts which have been erased  aNew DelhibASA Publications0/c1997  axii,663 p.bHBc22x14 cm.  2Historyb450.00c₹d450.00  aOver the last couple of decades, B.R. Ambedkar has come to be idolized as no other political leader has. His statue is one of the largest in the Parliament complex. Political parties have reaped rich electoral dividends riding on his name. A decades-old cartoon of him in a textbook rocked Parliament for days recently, causing parties across the political spectrum to run for cover and call for the withdrawal of the 'offending' cartoon. In Worshipping False Gods, Arun Shourie employs his scholarly rigour to cast a critical look at the legend of Ambedkar. With his distinctive eye for detail, Shourie delves into archival records to ask pertinent questions: Did Ambedkar coordinate his opposition to the freedom struggle with the British? How does his approach to social change contrast with that of Mahatma Gandhi's? Did the Constitution spring from him or did it grow as a dynamic living organism? Passionately argued and based on a mountain of facts that it presents, Worshipping False Gods compels us to go behind the myths on which discourse is built in India today.  aConstitutional History  aSocial Reformer  aStatesman  aSHOURIE (Arun)