IGNOU MPS 3 2015 - Explain how democracy and development arerelated to each other

Question

Explain how democracy and development are
related to each other

04 Jun 2018

Answer :

Word Count : 836

Contemporary politics in India is characterized by issues and movements that seek to challenge and re-define the meaning of both democracy and development. The purpose of a development strategy that involves hardships, dispossession and displacement, supposedly in the pursuit of the development is being interrogated. How can a strategy of development be democratic if it does not take into account the sufferings that it brings upon a huge section of the citizens of India?

In the years following independence there was joyous hope and pride in the establishment of democracy, but by the end of the 20th century, this gave way to cynicism and disappointment with the functioning of democracy. On the other hand, there has been a renewal of democratic spirit among the citizens of India in the form of numerous people’s movements that question the various aspects of the Indian state and its functioning.

This intense interrogation is because of a deepening disconnect between the agenda of democracy on the one hand and that of development on the other hand. The two ideas seem to be pulling in different directions.

In the years following independence, when the nationalist glow was still warm and reassuring, there was a kind of consensus built around the charismatic leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru. It was believed that India’s economic problems were a result of colonialism, and with independence, the nationalist state would address and tackle this problem. Development was seen as a vital and inseparable part of the democratic agenda, and it was clear to all that the Indian state was cast in an economic role in order to further the cause of democracy.

By the end of the 1960s decade however the first cracks in

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