Worshipping false gods : Ambedkar, and the facts which have been erased (Record no. 61660)
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| fixed length control field | 01488nam a22001457a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9789350293430 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 954.035092 |
| Item number | ARU/W |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Arun Shourie |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Worshipping false gods : Ambedkar, and the facts which have been erased |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Noida |
| Name of publisher | harper Collins |
| Year of publication | 2012 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 664p. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | 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. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Politics and government |
| -- | Constitutional history |
| -- | Statesmen |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | BK |
| 952 ## - LOCATION AND ITEM INFORMATION (KOHA) | |
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| Home library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Kannur University Central Library | Stack | 31/08/2021 | 599.00 | 954.035092 ARU/W | 53816 | BK |