The roads in Gujarat run straight and true, and most places are blessed with a covetously unbroken supply of electricity. But when Puni’s children fell ill with typical childhood illnesses, the state failed her. Three of them died before reaching the age of three. “If there was a hospital nearby it would be very helpful,” says Puni, a tribal, or adivasi, woman in her 40s who uses only one name. She makes a subsistence living growing wheat and maize in a village 20 miles from the town of Godhra. “By the time you have to arrange a vehicle to take you, it allows the person to be lost,” she says. With India no more than 11 months away from perhaps its most significant election for a generation,…

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