Worshipping False Gods

Worshipping False Gods: Ambedkar, And The Facts Which Have Been Erased.
This is Arun Shourie's latest book which is popularly known as the book that has reopened questions. Did Ambedkar coordinate his opposition to the freedom struggle with the British.

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Worshipping False Gods

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Worshipping False Gods: Ambedkar, And The Facts Which Have Been Erased

By Arun Shourie

This is Arun Shourie's latest book which is popularly known as the book that has reopened questions. Did Ambedkar coordinate his opposition to the freedom struggle with the British? How does his approach to social return contrast with that of those who actually brought revolution - Gandhiji, Narayan Guru? Did the Constitution spring from him or did it grow as a living organism?

Secretary Of State For Viceroy : Secret, Private And Private And Personal, 28 December 1932: Ambedakar had behaved very well at the (Round Table) conference, and I am most anxious to strength his hand in every possible way……..Secretary Of State For India To Governor, Madras : Secret, 24 November 1933: During the last two or three years I have seen a great deal of Ambedkar, and, like most of my friends I have been impressed by his ability and his manifest desire to support the British influence in India………Viceroy To Sectary Of State: Private And Personal, 19 November 1940 : He Ambedkar was quite clear that Muslims proposed to hold to their demand for 50:50 and so gradually lay the foundation of Pakistan , and he was perfectly content himself , he said, with the state of things, and in favour of the Pakistan idea quite frankly because it mean the British would have to say in India……….Ambedkar In The Rajya Sabha, 2 September 1953: People always keep on saying to me : ‘O, you are the maker of the Constitution.’ My answer is I was a hack. What I was asked to do, I did much against my will….. Sir, my friends tell me that I have made the Constitution. But I am quite prepared to say be the first person to burnt it out…………

About the Author : Arun Shourie, among India?s best known commentators on current and political affairs, backs his distinctive writing, his conscientiously independent perspectrive with rigorous analysis and meticulous research. Born in Jalandhar in 1941, he studied at Modern School and St. Stephen?s College in Delhi, and obtained his doctorate in Economics from the University of Syracuse, USA. He has been an economist with the World Bank, a consultant to the Planning Commission and Editor of The Indian Express. His writings have gained him a vast following across the country, as well as several national and international honours. Among these are the Padma Bhushan, the Magsaysay Award, the Dadabhai Naoroji Award, the Astor Award, the K.S. Hegde Award and the International Editor of the Year Award. The Federation of Indian Publishers recently conferred The Freedom to Publish Award on him. At present Arun Shourie is a member of the Rajya Sabha.

He has been an economist with the World Bank and a consultant to the Planning Commission, and Editor of the Indian Express. His writings have gained him a vast following across the country, as well as several national and international honors.


To mark its 50th year, The International Press Institute has acclaimed fifty persons as Heroes of World Press freedom - as persons whose work has made a difference for the press across the World in the last half century, Arun Shourie is one of them.

Author: Arun Shourie

ISBN: 8129105799

Size: 14cm X 21.5cm

Pages: 663

Price: Rs.595/-

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