Worshipping False Gods: Ambedkar, And The Facts Which Have Been Erased
Jul 2012 · HarperCollins
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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.
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Yatish verma
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December 23, 2022
Arun shorie ko Rss aur others Brahminvadi leaders ki British Bhakti ke baare mein bhi book likhni chahiye.shame on Brahmins like shourie jo ektarafa history batata hai
Beekay_ melodies
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April 11, 2024
Excellent analysis,need of hour,followers are blindly upheld history of Bhimrao,he has completed his own degree on the support of his poor people always boasting exaggerated everything,
Pawan Kumar
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May 7, 2022
biased view by Arun Shourie.. he is seeing only one angle. very sorry to see such narration.
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Scholar, author, former editor and minister, Arun Shourie is one of the most prominent voices in our country's public life and discourse. He has written over twenty-five bestselling books.
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