Worshipping False Gods - Softcover

Shourie, Arun

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9350293439 ISBN 13: 9789350293430

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2012

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Scholar, author, former editor and minister, Arun Shourie is one of the most prominent voices in India's public life and discourse. This is his twenty-sixth book.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 9350293439
• ISBN 13: 9789350293430
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 680