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As per your 1st document (page 15). Kerala has risen from 84.6 to 152 (~80%) while Haryana from 106.9 to 176.8 (~65%) in addition to the fact that most of the H

• alephnerd 2y ago
  If you look at the results of India's National Human Development Report from 1981, Kerala was already further ahead of any other state [0][1]. And the report I listed did not have data on half of the states that existed in India in 1980. > most of the Haryana's growth has come from being in proximity of New Delhi Not really. Delhi NCR de-industrialized in the 1970s-80s due to militant labor unionism [2] Furthermore, much of Haryana's population lives well outside of what became Delhi NCR, and urbanization only began in the 1980s with the development of SEZs in Manesar, Faridabad, and Gurgaon. > Same for Tamil Nadu (56%). Tamil Nadu shared similar developmental metrics to Haryana in the 1981 NHDR, neighbored a state in an active civil war that often leaked into the state (Sri Lanka / LTTE), and had severe caste fractures. [0] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_states_and_union_territories_by_Human_Development_Index#/media/File%3A1981nian_Yindu_Renlei_Fazhan_Zhishu.png https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_states_and_un... [1] - https://www.researchgate.net/figure/HUMAN-DEVELOPMENT-INDEX-OF-INDIAN-STATES-IN-1981-1991-AND-2001_tbl2_234057638 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/HUMAN-DEVELOPMENT-INDEX-... [2] - https://www.jstor.org/stable/4376065 https://www.jstor.org/stable/4376065