Gujarat Under Modi: Laboratory of Today's India - Hardcoverby Christophe Jaffrelot (Author) state of the Indian Union, his stewardship as Chief Minister of Gujarat being the longest in that state's history. Modi and his BJP supporters explained his achievement by pointing to economic growth under his leadership, yet detractors point out that Modi has been more business friendly than market friendly to the benefit of large industrial corporations, and at the cost of great social polarization. In 2002, an anti