than hegemony. Rather than being an exception, the Sangh Parivar in Gujarat may yet
hold a mirror up to itself in the rest of India. The question Gujarat and the 2004
elections in India forces us to ask is whether the BJP or Congress is capable of forging
a social democratic pact in the current neoliberal environment – and the answer is not
promising. This question, though, is what needs to be brought to the centre of our
enquiry.
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