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When India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, ran for the top job five years ago, he campaigned as the country’s best hope for economic reform. The government he ran against, led by the Congress party,…

Asia’s two largest and most diverse democracies held national elections in recent weeks, and religious tolerance was on the ballot in both. Voters, however, delivered diametrically opposed verdicts. …

In August, former Indian Prime MinisterAtal Bihari Vajpayeedied at the age of 93. India’s first prime minister from theBharatiya Janata Party(BJP), Vajpayee is often held up as an exemplar of…