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Birkitts Books presents ... Worshipping false gods: Ambedkar, and the facts which have been erased ISBN: 8190019961 Author: Chandra, Lokesh Publisher: ASA Publications Release Date: 1997-01-01 Seller Category: History Qty Available: 1 Condition: Used: Very Good Sku: 240831023 Notes: Minor shelf wear, binding tight, inside cover has a blank label affixed to it, else pages clean and unmarked. 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. Don't forget to check out other great deals in our Store!!