The common perception about Narendra Modi’s first term as Prime Minister is that he was first elected in 2014 on a platform of development and has since been re-elected, in 2019, on the platform of Hindutva nationalism. On the contrary, Modi’s consistent political platform is best described as Developmental Hindutva. He has been able to widen the political support base for the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) core ideology of Hindutva by focussing on the tried and tested mainstream Indian political narrative of “growth with social welfare” (Indira Gandhi), “growth with. . .
