Twenty years ago, as the 45-year-old Indian nation state nervously entered middle age, its elites made a fresh tryst with destiny. The short century marked by intense ideological conflicts seemed to be over. History itself - some powerful voices in the West claimed - had reached the terminus of American-style capitalism and democracy. And the idea of India - originally premised on secularism, non-alignment and socialism - seemed urgently in need of renovation.
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