About the Book: Samrat Balasaheb Thackeray
Defender of the Marathi manoos. Protector of Hindus. The Hindu Hriday Samrat.
Bal Thackeray almost single-handedly changed Mumbai forever-not just the name of
the city, but its very character and fabric.So charged was Thackerays rhetoric,
so unequivocal his identification with the Hindu right that it seems
counter-intuitive to claim he was not driven by ideology. Yet, that is what the
facts reveal. He was capable of seeking to enter into agreements with the Muslim
League and Dalit parties even as he virulently lambasted them in public.
Viscerally opposed though he was to the communists and communism, he had no
problems