Narendra Modi just finished his first year as India's leader. How did he fare?

Did the "Indian Reagan" live up to his promise?

Narendra Modi

This week is the first anniversary of Narendra Modi's premiership of India.

His election was a big, big deal, for a number of reasons. Modi had campaigned against the corrupt and dynastic culture of India's then-ruling National Congress party. The exhausted Prime Minister Manmoan Singh was being kept on only to make room for Rahul Gandhi, son of two prime ministers, and descendent of the Gandhi and Nehru families. Because Congress had to rely on a fractious coalition of smaller parties, its agenda was often stuck in neutral, and it often had to deal with corruption scandals that it could do little about.

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Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry is a writer and fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. His writing has appeared at Forbes, The Atlantic, First Things, Commentary Magazine, The Daily Beast, The Federalist, Quartz, and other places. He lives in Paris with his beloved wife and daughter.