What began with Indira has culminated in the Hindu majoritarian regime of Narendra Modi. Years after she resigned as the British prime minister, the conservative icon Margaret Thatcher said she considered her greatest achievement to be Tony Blair, who transformed the left-wing Labour Party into a neoliberal force. With only some exaggeration, it could be said that Indira’s is Modi – the Congress’s nemesis, yet one who inherited her politics of authoritarian nationalism and forged it into a brutal instrument of Hindu supremacy. This illegitimate, if partial, political genealogy is buried in the unconscious of the Indian political class, desperately repressed both by Indira’s successors and Modi’s supporters. Among those who drew the crooked line between the two, Arun Shourie’s handiwork is distinctive.