India’s Coalitions for Change Transforming the world’s most dynamic economy Mihir S. Sharma The transformation of the Indian economy and the modernisation of the Indian state is essential if one million new job seekers a month are to be employed India's current government, expected to focus exclusively on transformational economic reform, has been something of a disappointment The socio-political coalition that elected the government in 2014 continues to have potential to be a supporter of transformative economic policy This support however would require tweaks to the composition of the coalition, and a change in rhetorical focus among those calling for reform