Narendra Modi, formed in the RSS and chief minister of Gujarat, leads the Bharatiya Janata Party to the first single-party majority in thirty years and becomes prime minister; his governments put Hindu nationalist themes at the center of Indian public life.
Tagged: Hindu Hindu Reform Movements
The Event
- Date
- 2014 (exact)
- Also called
- Narendra Modi becomes prime minister
- Era
- Modern; Standard periodization of Hindu history
- Location
- New Delhi; today India
- Traditions
- Hinduism
- Streams
- Hindu Reform Movements
- Key figures
- Narendra Modi
Connections
- RSS founded; rose through
Primary Sources
- Election Commission of India, general election results 2014
Secondary Sources
- Guha, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy (HarperCollins, 2007)
- Michaels, Hinduism: Past and Present (Princeton, 2004)
Provenance: HIST-0340; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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