Modi is on a mission to assert India's global power. His election setback won't deter him.

• India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi won a narrower-than-expected reelection victory. 
• But the setback likely won't deter his global ambitions. 
• Modi wants to make India into one of the world's major powers. 

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi emerged from Tuesday's election with his air of invincibility damaged.

The strongman leader of the world's biggest democracy had been predicted to win reelection for a third term by a landslide.