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Modi Tries to Revamp Battered Image in Blighty

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Nov 13, 2015
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It’s tempting to wonder whether Narendra Modi’s crushing defeat in the Bihar state assembly election announced on Nov. 8 has, in a small way, had the sort of catalytic impact on him that India’s financial crash in 1991 had on the then-Congress Prime Minister Narasimha Rao and his finance minister, Manmohan Singh.

Rao and Singh quickly opened up the India…

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