This year has seen the publication of several books and numerous articles devoted to a prime minister previously forgotten or ignored: PV Narasimha Rao. Despite enjoying a full five-year term in office, despite overseeing a major and defining shift in economic policy, despite effecting innovations in foreign policy such as the ‘Look East’ strategy, Narasimha Rao had thus far not got his due from scholars and commentators on Indian politics. […]