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PEEPLI KHERA, India — On my last week in India, I went to say goodbye to Jahiruddin Mewati, the chief of a small village where I had made a dozen reporting trips. Jahiruddin and I were not precisely friends, but we had spent many hours talking over the years, mostly about local politics. I found him entirely without scruples but candid. He sus- pected my motives but found me entertaining, in the way that a talking dog might be enter- taining, without regard for the particulars of what I said. Jahiruddin, though uneducated, was an adept politician, fresh from winning a hard- fought local election. During our conversa- tions, he would often break into rousing, patri- otic speeches about truth and justice, thump- ing the plastic table in emphasis and making it jump. The effect was somewhat tarnished by his Tourette’s syndrome, which caused him to interject the word “penis” at regular intervals. He was frank about the dirty aspects of his job. He occupied a post reserved for women from lower castes, but no one pretended this was any more than a sham; his wife’s name ap- peared on the ballot, but the face on the poster was his. Nearly everything he did in local govern- ment was transactional, driven by the desire to secure the votes of minuscule family and caste groups. The funny thing was, it seemed to be working pretty well. Among his pet constituencies was a commu- nity of former beggars, some of the poorest people I had met in India. I had visited these people regularly over the past two years, and their lives had improved in striking ways — in some cases through Jahiruddin’s intervention. He had persuaded — and by this I mean bribed — caste leaders to allow their women to work as day laborers, and their rising incomes were apparent in new brick houses and well- nourished children. A new subsidy had pro- vided women with gas stoves, freeing them from the grinding task of scavenging for fire- wood. That shift struck me as quietly revolu- tionary, like the arrival of the contraceptive pill How to Get Away With Murder In India, With a Town Watching By ELLEN BARRY Jahiruddin Mewati, the elected leader of the village of Peepli Khera, who presided over a particularly Indian form of justice. A woman named Anjum, whose home near a water pump made her a source for gossip in Peepli Khera, said she saw a man bludgeon his wife in front of a dozen people. PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANDREA BRUCE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Continued on Page 10 He heaped praise on Jared Kushner at a private gathering of bankers and corporate executives in December, congratulating President Trump’s son-in-law on the surprise election triumph. He stood up again in May before a group of corporate leaders on the 39th floor of Citigroup’s offices to remind them of all the good the Trump administration could do for the economy and the country. And at a meeting on Monday with his employees, as Mr. Trump’s support in corporate America began to crumble over remarks about white nationalists, he condemned the violence in Charlottesville, Va., but not the president’s response to it. By week’s end, a rebellion among cor- porate leaders led to the disband- ing of business advisory councils to the president. Stephen A. Schwarzman, the chief executive of the private equi- ty giant Blackstone and the leader of one of the councils, has not been alone on Wall Street in his em- brace of the Trump presidency, Deal With Saudis Underlines Benefits of Backing President This article is by Jessica Silver- Greenberg, Ben Protess and Mi- chael Corkery. Continued on Page 16 FALLS CHURCH, Va. — The bloody white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., has thrust race and history to the forefront of this year’s campaign for governor in Virginia, a tradition-bound state whose identity has always been rooted in a past that is as proud for some residents as it is painful for others. The gubernatorial race in this swing state was already set to be the next big test of the nation’s politics, its results inevitably to be read as a harbinger for the 2018 midterm elections and President Trump’s fate. But the events last weekend in one of its historical centers ensure that the nation’s highest-profile campaign this fall will also be fought in part along the highly combustible lines of ra- cial politics. With Mr. Trump defending Con- federate statues and his former top strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, openly inviting Democrats to con- tinue focusing on the issue of re- moving monuments, the presi- dent will loom large over the com- monwealth in November. It is a course that leaves both parties somewhat discomfited, because of both Virginia’s bifur- cated demography and the cau- tious nature of the two candidates. In the aftermath of last week- end’s violence, Lt. Gov. Ralph S. Northam, the Democratic nomi- nee for governor, has firmed up his call to take down Confederate Continued on Page 19 Charlottesville Raises Tension Of Key Election Reshaping the Race for Governor of Virginia By JONATHAN MARTIN A collection of images taken by Wang Qiuhang during China’s Cultural Revo- lution features a taboo subject at that time: the photographer himself. PAGE 6 INTERNATIONAL 4-11 Selfies as an Act of Defiance Alaska will always be different from the lower 48, but its exceptionalism is fad- ing with improvements in communica- tions and transportation. PAGE 12 NATIONAL 12-19 Alaska Is (Less) Different Allan Dunlap’s credit was ruined after Wells Fargo made him pay for unneed- ed coverage. He says he’s still waiting for the bank to make amends. PAGE 1 SUNDAY BUSINESS Forced to Buy Car Insurance On the International Tennis Federa- tion’s Futures Tour, thousands play in relative obscurity with little hope of ever joining the men’s elite. PAGE 1 SPORTSSUNDAY Toiling on Tennis’s Lowest Rung Loudon Wainwright III PAGE 8 SUNDAY REVIEW U(D547FD)v+%!&!/!=!_ For Parson Hicks, a health care finance executive who supports President Trump, this past week has felt a little like déjà vu. Mr. Trump says something. His oppo- nents howl and then predict, with certainty, a point of no return. The last time this happened, she said, was in October with the noto- rious “Access Hollywood” record- ing of Mr. Trump talking lewdly about women. His opponents were sure he was finished. His supporters knew better. “Let’s be honest, the people who are currently outraged are the same people who have always been outraged,” said Ms. Hicks, 35, a lifelong Republican who lives in Boston. “The media makes it seem like something has changed, when in reality nothing has.” It was a week of incessant tu- mult, when Mr. Trump tumbled into open warfare with some in his own party over his statements on the violence in Charlottesville, Va.; business executives aban- doned his advisory councils; top military leaders pointedly made statements denouncing racism in a way he did not; and his embat- tled chief strategist, Stephen K. Trump’s Tumultuous Week? To Supporters, It Went Well By SABRINA TAVERNISE Continued on Page 17 WASHINGTON — In his West Wing office, Stephen K. Bannon kept a chart listing trade actions — on China, steel and autos — that the Trump White House planned to roll out, week by week, through the fall. Now that Mr. Ban- non, the president’s chief strategist, has been pushed out, the question is whether his agenda will be erased along with him. It is not just trade: Mr. Bannon has had a strong voice on issues from climate change and China to immigration and the war in Afghanistan. He has been an unyielding advocate for a viscer- al brand of nationalism, and though he lost as often as he won in policy debates, his departure could tip the balance on some fiercely contested issues toward a more mainstream approach, even if the core tenets of his philosophy survive. Mr. Bannon’s dormlike office functioned as a sort of command center for the administration’s nationalist wing. He met there with a coterie of mostly young, like-minded colleagues, planning strategy and plotting against foes, from Lt. Gen. H. R. McMas- ter, the national security adviser, to Gary D. Cohn, the director of the National Economic Council. Bannon’s Out, But His Ideas Might Not Be Influential on Trade and Foreign Policy By MARK LANDLER and MAGGIE HABERMAN Continued on Page 19 NEWS ANALYSIS SPENCER PLATT/GETTY IMAGES Thousands of counterprotesters took to the streets Saturday as the city feared that a planned “free speech” rally would become a haven for white supremacists. The gatherings, a week after violence erupted in Charlottesville, Va., were largely peaceful. Page 13. An Overpowering Display in Boston For more than a decade, Spain seemed immune to the steady eruptions of Islamist violence that rocked other European countries where radicalized young men, of- ten from poor immigrant back- grounds, carried out devastating bomb, gun or vehicular attacks. Spain’s security forces carved out a reputation as some of Eu- rope’s most dogged counterter- rorism operators, fighting an in- tense battle beneath a deceptively placid surface in a country whose long Mediterranean coastline, just across from Morocco, makes it an inviting entry point into Eu- rope for jihadists. But the illusion of a Spanish ha- ven was shattered Thursday when a van swerved down Las Ramblas, Barcelona’s famous pe- destrian boulevard, leaving be- hind a trail of bodies including 13 dead and about 100 injured. An- other person was killed in a sec- ond attack at a nearby seaside re- sort that ended when the police shot dead five suspects. Now, the authorities are rush- ing to answer how a group that in- cluded teenagers was able to carry out a well-planned and co- ordinated attack in a country that has parried danger for so long, de- spite being such a tempting and symbolic target for Islamists. “For the jihadis, Spain is still very much a front-line country,” said Bruce Hoffman, a George- town University professor who has advised the American govern- ment on terrorism. Since 2004, when a series of bombs ripped through commuter trains in Madrid, killing 192 peo- ple, Spain has foiled a long list of Islamist plots — not least in the coastal area around Barcelona where Thursday’s attacks took place. Over 700 suspected of extre- mism have been arrested since 2004, according to the Interior Ministry. They include Pakistanis plotting suicide attacks on the Barcelona subway in 2008; a ter- rorist cell in Melilla, Spain’s terri- tory in North Africa; and nine, mostly Moroccan, men arrested in Spain, Adept In Terror Fight, Still Fell Victim This article is by Declan Walsh, Raphael Minder, Eric Schmitt and Rukmini Callimachi. Continued on Page 9 TRUMPS TO SKIP TRIBUTE The president and first lady will miss the Kennedy Center Honors to prevent “any political distraction.” PAGE 17 Late Edition VOL. CLXVI . . . No. 57,695 © 2017 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, SUNDAY, AUGUST 20, 2017 © 2017 Citibank, N.A. Citi and Citi with Arc Design are registered service marks of Citigroup Inc. WHEN WE SAY DOUBLE WE MEAN DOUBLE. 1 % 1 % WHEN YOU BUY AS YOU PAY The Citi ® Double Cash card. Double means double. citi.com/doublecash Today, plenty of sunshine, warm, lower humidity levels, high 84. To- night, clear, low 71. Tomorrow, sun- shine and patchy clouds, warm, high 88. 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