A new book "Gandhi: Siasat Aur Sampradaya" written by Piyush Babele

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A new Hindi book titled Gandhi: Siasat Aur Communalism has been authored by journalist-turned-author Piyush Babele, who currently heads the media department of the Madhya Pradesh Congress.

An Overview of the News

• The book quotes from Dr. Ambedkar's book Pakistan or the Partition of India and other sources to refer to the events leading up to the partition of India in 1947.

• The book aims to break the myth spread by the Hindu right wing that Mahatma Gandhi was responsible for the partition.

• The book is published by New Delhi based Genuine Publications & Media Private Limited.

"Pakistan or the Partition of India" by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar

• This book by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, a social reformer and the chief architect of the Indian Constitution.

• It was published in 1940, a few years before India's independence and the partition of India, and in it Ambedkar analyses the factors that led to the demand for a separate Muslim state of Pakistan.

• Ambedkar also discusses the political, economic and social implications of the partition of India.

• The book provides an insight into the complicating factors that led to the Partition of India and its aftermath.

About Madhya Pradesh

Establishment - 1 November 1956

Capital - Bhopal

Chief Minister - Shivraj Singh Chouhan

Official Animal - Barasingha

Official River - Narmada River

Official Tree - Banyan