between business and the state, India has followed a socialist model that was of ten hostile to free enterprise. In the last few years, however, India has begun to allow greater free market activity, reduced the state's involvement in the economy, and allowed its private sector to flourish. The result has been faster growth, though not even close to the tiger countries, but without sacrificing India's often chaotic democracy. India, therefore, unlike the other Asian tigers, put democracy before economic growth, maintaining a free society but falling behind further economically in the process.