The Congress’ strategy in Gujarat is centred on four castes. All of them low or backward—Kshatriya, Harijan, Adivasi, Muslim. The four initials give us the word KHAM, coined by the only intellectual in the Gujarat Congress, Madhavsinh Solanki. At a time not easily remembered now, power was shared by these four communities, ranged against their political rivals and social tormentors...