Milan Vaishnav on How Indian-Americans View India
Ideas of India
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Indira Gandhi's Government Is a Lot More Transparent, Right?
The bjipe has emerged as sort of the umbrella party, which wants to include all casts and linguistic differences. So now we are much more reliant on the religious aspect of ethnic divisions than we were in the past. For many indians, what has been so great about mister mody is that his appeals have transcended caste, right? That he doesn't play the same kind of cast politics at some of the mundel parties like the summag woty party. The key to understanding the way in which the b j p has been able to take over the hinde hartland is premised on mobilizing along cast divisions.
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