KERALA RISING · FROM EXPORTING PEOPLE TO EXPORTING IDEAS 10. How we would know it is working. The honest measurement regime, tied wherever possible to data an external body already collects. 11. Objections, and what would make it fail. The hardest questions answered plainly, and a candid account of the program’s real failure modes. A NOTE ON SEQUENCE Cleanliness is described first not because it matters most, but because it is the state’s most emotionally visible governance gap; the failure the tourist sees and the diaspora flinches at, and therefore the fastest way to prove the machine in public. Once proven, the marginal cost of every later program is a fraction of the first, because the institution, the stack, and the audited corpus already exist. Chapter 17 returns to sequencing in full. 101