01780nam a22002417a 4500 20220328152744.0 220328b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d ‎9789350293430 Aloy eng 23 954.035 SHOW Arun Shourie 26353 Worshipping false Gods: Ambedkar and the facts which have been erased New Delhi ASA Publications0/ 1997 xii,663 p. HB 22x14 cm. History 450.00 ₹ 450.00 Over 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. Constitutional History 26349 Social Reformer 26350 Statesman 26351 SHOURIE (Arun) 26352 ddc GF 222061 222061 0 0 ddc 0 0 HIS AL AL 2013-03-24 0 954.035 SHOW GF03937 2022-03-28 00:00:00 2022-03-28 GF