the non-recurrence of 2002-style killings in India provides little reason to credit its elites with heightened tolerance and compassion. Left behind by economic growth, Muslims are more demoralised and depressed than ever; and the country’s extreme inequalities, often enforced with violence, express themselves in new forms, ranging from suicides by tens of thousands of farmers, to militant insurgencies. Old-style rioting has been replaced by state terrorism, often cheer-led by the elites. (In 2007 India ranked just behind Iraq in annual incidents of "terrorist" violence.) Under Modi’s rule, Gujarat has seen a steep rise in extrajudicial killings. Economic globalisation, far from spurring moral and spiritual growth among its beneficiaries, has helped to create new constituencies - among haves as well as have-nots - for xenophobia and Modi-style authoritarian populism