DEMOCRACY AND DEVELPMENT IN INDIA
In: The round table: the Commonwealth journal of international affairs, Band 333, S. 73-79
ISSN: 0035-8533
THE PERSISTENCE AND CONTINUITY OF INDIA'S DEMOCRACY HAS OFTEN EVOKED ADMIRATION. THIS ARTICLE CONSIDERS THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS: HAS DEMOCRACY IN INDIA BEEN CONDUCIVE TO DEVELOPMENT? WILL DEMOCRACY HELP OR HINDER INDIAN DEVELOPMENT IN THE FUTURE, ESPECIALLY IN THE CONTEXT OF ECONOMIC REFORM? IT NOTES THAT IF INDIA CAN SUCCESSFULLY MAKE THE TRANSITION TO A MARKET ECONOMY, ITS GROWTH RATE WOULD INCREASE SHARPLY.