Former Indian prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee has died after a prolonged illness at the age of 93.
Mr Vajpayee was a Hindu nationalist who in 1998 ordered nuclear weapons tests which stoked fears of an atomic war with rival Pakistan.
However, he later launched a ground-breaking peace process with Islamabad.
He was a moderate leader of an often-strident Hindu nationalist movement, and a lifelong poet who revered nature but who oversaw India’s growth into a swaggering regional economic power.
Mr Vajpayee’s supporters saw him as a skilled politician, while critics accused him and his party of stoking public fears of India’s large Muslim minority.
However, both sides agreed he was that rare thing in Indian politics: a man untainted by corruption scandals.
