[Cronos]

In Bangalore, the Church which holds huge amounts of British-handed city-centre prime real estate

Not really -- the "Church" you refer to is the Church of South India which is affiliated to the Anglican Church. The Church referred to here is the CAtholic Church. Remember that the English were pretty anti-CAtholic, so they did not hand over things to the Catholic Church.

We BOTH may be right -- there would be a commercial AND demagogue aspect to this. Though, I think it will backfire on the Modi govt because no-one's going to think this is in any way good.

[CarrotAndStick]

I think you're right about the whole thing.