He understands that a political party survives on ideology, but ideology withers if it is not nourished by ideas that work
Before he became India’s prime minister, Modi was India’s chief minister
India remains a democracy and has been so except for a brief period when elections were suspended and fundamental rights curbed across the land
What Modi has done over time, especially by providing public goods that were earlier local in nature, is to greatly weaken the salience of caste-based politics