The relationship between democracy and human development in India

Increasing human well-being, as well as increasing social integration, has always been a concern for researchers and politicians and people from different countries. India, as one of the largest democracies in the world, can attract researchers to study the interaction of development and social disparities. In this article, after explaining the concepts of democracy and the index of human development, we consider the context and causes of political development in India. Finally, the relationship between democracy and human development was studied. The methodology of this research is descriptive-analytical and data for this report are derived from the Human Development Report of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and Campbell Democracy Index of Campbell and colleagues. To analyze the data, Pearson correlation test was used in SPSS 19 statistical software. The results of this study indicate that there is no meaningful relationship between democracy in India and its human development index, but democracy in this country has a growing trend.