The presence of a stable, consolidated democracy in the poor and unequal country of India poses a puzzle for … India first come to institutionalize this constitutive democratic institution? The paper explores the most commonly cited …

decline continued throughout the nineteenth century. Among the causes of its decline were the oppression of the East India … Company's servants on the weavers, the iniquitous tariff policy of the colonial government both in England and in India and … India and the slow, laborious and wasteful methods followed in the manufacture of cotton fabrics by handloom weavers. The …