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Revised and updated 2019 edition with an analysis of the Modi yearsIndia continues to punch below its weight, failing to achieve what it could and should be doing. It has the vast potential of a population of over a billion people, abundant natural resources and an ancient culture, yet it constantly disappoints admirers and validates the views of critics. These failings have generated a widespread clamour for a better India, which, in part, led to Narendra Modi being elected India's prime minister in 2014, with an agenda for change that could begin to reverse the years of drift.But, as John…mehr

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Revised and updated 2019 edition with an analysis of the Modi yearsIndia continues to punch below its weight, failing to achieve what it could and should be doing. It has the vast potential of a population of over a billion people, abundant natural resources and an ancient culture, yet it constantly disappoints admirers and validates the views of critics. These failings have generated a widespread clamour for a better India, which, in part, led to Narendra Modi being elected India's prime minister in 2014, with an agenda for change that could begin to reverse the years of drift.But, as John Elliott elaborates in the new preface to this 2019 edition of Implosion that traces Modi's rise and his 2014 election victory, and with a long new chapter examining the BJP government's performance, Modi was not able to do what was needed to fulfil his 'achhe din' promise. Policies and initiatives have produced far less than was needed, and there has been a serious decline in social cohesion, with an acceleration of attacks on individual freedoms.India now has to choose between two sharply contrasting futures, says Elliott: to become a primarily Hindu nation, with Muslims and other minorities being regarded as second-class citizens; or to continue with the tolerant secular traditions set by Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister. The 2019 elections will decide which path India is to take.
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John Elliott is a former Financial Times journalist who was based in New Delhi for over 25 years. He writes a blog on Indian current affairs, http: //ridingtheelephant.wordpress.com/ and also contributes to Asia Sentinel in Hong Kong. In Asia since 1983, he has written for The Economist, FORTUNE magazine and the New Statesman. This is the third edition of IMPLOSION. It begins with a new Preface that covers the run-up to 2014, when Narendra Modi became prime minister of India, and the beginnings of his Bhartiya Janta Party-led government. The book's original text has been updated and, at the end, there is an extensive new section of five chapters that review and analyse what has and has not been achieved by the government along with the new problems that have emerged. It also looks ahead to the challenges that India faces.