Half - Lion: How P.V. Narasimha Rao Transformed India

by Vinay Sitapati

The difference lay in his idea of secularism. As Haidar puts it, ‘He was well aware of India’s communality.’47 Unlike the westernized Jawaharlal Nehru, Rao did not see India as a nation of individuals but as a federation of caste and religious groups.