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Modi's Saffron Democracy
- Dissent
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 66, Number 2, Spring 2019
- pp. 94-106
- 10.1353/dss.2019.0035
- Article
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ABSTRACT:
In May 2014, Narendra Modi became India's fourteenth prime minister since independence. Storming to power after a charged electoral campaign, the strongman from Gujarat represented a political earthquake. Under his leadership, the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was the first party to win a parliamentary majority since 1984, ending a quarter century of national coalition governments in New Delhi.