2014 polls: Bimaru and the Modi factor

Ashish Bose, one of the country’s foremost demographers, passed away this month, just a year ahead of what would have been the 30th anniversary of his coining of the term BIMARU: Bihar (B), Madhya Pradesh (MA), Rajasthan (R) and Uttar Pradesh (U). He had identified them in the context of the stickiness of their demographic statistics.

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