Name: M.G Sandeep Raj
Country: India

Year: 2020
Volume: Volume-10, Issue-1 (January-June)
Page Number: 27-32

ABSTRACT
The Relationship between democracy and desirable societal development is one of the most
intensely discussed issues in the social sciences. When India crops up in this discussion, it is
often because examples are found here that turn common perceptions upside down. For
example, the school of modernization may be mentioned, which is based largely on the idea
that economic growth is a necessary prerequisite for democracy. Barrington Moore developed
this view and was quick to make a pessimistic forecast of India’s prospects after
Independence. It is true that from Independence onwards until the 1980s, the Indian economy
did not do well. Economists spoke in deprecating terms of what they called the ‘Hindu rate of
growth’. As long as economic growth was only two or three per cent, the broad-based middle
class that social scientists asserted was a necessary prerequisite for a democracy was unable
to emerge. A weak economy and low literacy levels and the extremely uneven d