Last week, elections in the world's biggest democracy came to an end.

It is one big election, the biggest ever in world history.

900 million eligible voters, just a huge operation, of course.

Exoppoles in India's national election are predicting

that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will win another majority government.

This election was seen as a referendum on Modi.

He was a Hindu nationalist.

His party has been accused of stoking religious divisions.

We wanted to better understand something called Hindutva or Hindu nationalism.

The idea that being Indian and being Hindu is synonymous.

Because it had a really important role in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's re-election.

But before we get into the history of Hindu nationalism,

we first wanted to understand how it played out in the election.

So we talked to Lauren Freyer.

I'm NPR's India correspondent based in Mumbai.

Who's been covering the election for months.

She started by telling us about the BJP, Modi's political party.

So the BJP is the Bharti at Janata party.

It's a right-wing Hindu nationalist party.

And it operates sort of as the political arm of the RSS,

the Rosh Dres wayamsa Vaksong.

And that's this big Hindu volunteer group that's

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