Mayawati is shrewd enough to realise that there will be no archives for her, no equivalent of the Nehru Museum. She has created no future dynasty but she has a sense that she belongs to a genealogy of power.
Jayalalithaa, however, does not invoke holiness but represents the awe of inscrutable power. She is more an elemental force than a human being.
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