Narendra Modi has kept his vow to make India like Gujarat

THE TWO most consequential South Asians of the 20th century were Gujarati: Mohandas Gandhi and Muhammad Ali Jinnah, respectively the “father of the nation” of India and of Pakistan. So was Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, who as India’s first home minister cajoled (or bullied) 565 “princely states” into joining the union.