2014: The Election That Changed India

By Rajdeep Sardesai

Categories: Politics & Social Sciences

In 2014: The Election That Changed India (2014), journalist Rajdeep Sardesai tells the story of the general election in which Narendra Modi led the BJP to the first single-party majority in the Lok Sabha in thirty years. Drawing on his reporting from the campaign trail, Sardesai examines the candidates and strategies, the collapse of the Congress party, the role of social media and money, and the longer shifts in caste, class and aspiration that made the result possible.

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