Politics in Gorakhpur since the 1920s: the making of a safe ‘Hindu’ constituency
The city of Gorakhpur presents what may be a unique, and is certainly an unusual, configuration of religion and politics. The sitting MP from 1998 to 2017, Yogi Adityanath, a Hindu monk, had one of the safest seats in India and won five parliamentary elections in a row, a career that culminated in h...
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Routledge
2019
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