Probing the Black Holes in My Geopolitical-economic Imagination: What to make of Narendra Modi's Win?

This post will be extraordinarily short and succinct, simply because India remains a black hole to me mentally.  I have to confess that I know almost nothing about the internal politics or economic developmental status of the country except that it has experienced partisan domination in national politics by the Indian National Congress Party for almost the entire period since its independence and that economic growth has experienced a dramatic slow down in recent years, notwithstanding rapid growth in the 1990s and early 2000s.  It is my understanding that Modi has promised to clean up corruption, reduce bureaucratic rigidities in relations between the central government in Deli and individual state governments especially with regard to industrial and infrastructural projects, reform tax codes to enhance economic growth, and reduce social welfare expenditures.  In other words, it sounds like Modi is going to advance a protypical neoliberal reform in tandem with a Hindu nationalist cultural project, with possible negative connotations for Indian Muslims especially among the poor.  In this manner, there may be plenty to criticize in regard to the direction Modi's policies will take, but these policies might additionally open up new spaces for radical alternative projects (i.e. decentralized cooperative/communist projects, filling holes left behind by the new direction of state economic planning policies and the retraction of meager social welfare policies) not otherwise envisioned in the BJP's plans for economic development.  The most that can be said is that the world will have to wait and see.