The state packs in a disproportionate quota of despair. It seems to fester with India’s grisliest crimes, its harshest oppressions by caste, sex or faith, its most feckless politicians and its most polluted environments. It has remained grindingly poor. At $991, nominal gdp per person amounts to less than half of the country’s modest average, and lower than that of any other Asian country save Afghanistan and Tajikistan .The state of Uttar Pradesh is a tad larger than the United Kingdom and three and a half times as populous. Covering much of the vast, fertile Gangetic Plain and pressed up against the border with Nepal, it is home to such treasures as the Taj Mahal and the Hindu holy city of Varanas. Will Elections in Uttar Pradesh Reveal where India is heading?

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