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The competitiveness and quality of Indian exports was a cause of concern for native European manufacturers, and in Britain in particular, before the establishment of British rule in India, there were several acts of Parliament prohibiting the wearing of Indian textile products.
An Uncertain Glory
Jean Drèze;Amartya Sen
The easiest way for powerful people to get what they want out of the political process is to set up exclusive self-appointed committees that deliberate privately to set the agenda and arrive at policies which they then introduce to public debate as accomplished facts. Such activities violate the most basic democratic norms of publicity.
Inclusion and Democracy
Iris Marion Young
Governments that obfuscate their role in human rights abuses are often excused from having to answer for egregious actions, while national mythmaking also fuels elite ignorance at the academic level, because mythologized understanding of a nation’s past comes to be slowly misperceived as factual reality, leading to misinformed policy solutions. A good example is the belief that the British state was largely uninvolved in building or regulating economic markets during the 19th century.
The Unknowers
Linsey McGoey
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