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Comment: The correlation between democracy and development in India.

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  • Planning and Economic Development

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Seymour Martin Lipset's modernisation thesis ("Some Social Requisites of Democracy", 1959) held that wealth, literacy and urbanisation make democracy possible and durable. India inverted the sequence: universal adult franchise arrived in 1950, when literacy was about 18 per cent. The Indian correlation is therefore not a simple positive one but a two-way, uneven relationship —…

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