Rule of law as institutional substrate — contract enforcement, judicial independence, equal treatment before the law. Upstream of most other axes.
Independence of the judiciary from executive and legislative encroachment. Specifically captures court-packing, selective prosecution, judicial reshuffles.
The Government of India Act 1935 replaced dyarchy in the provinces with provincial autonomy, expanded the electorate, created federal, provincial, and concurrent legislative lists, and established the Federal Court and public-service commissions. Its proposed all-India federation with princely states never fully came into force, and the Governor-General and provincial governors retained extensive "safeguard" powers over finance, defence, and constitutional emergencies. Even so, it became the decisive constitutional frame of late colonial India and the legal template that carried through to independence until the Constitution of 1950.
Per invariant 3, reforms are scored by what they did on each channel-separated axis, not by the party that enacted them. This fingerprint is how the policy-match engine finds historical analogues.
Explicit links are curated by the author. Inferred links are hypotheses in the library that test the same axes this policy moved — the framework's answer to "what does the data say about a policy like this?".
Ranked by axis-fingerprint overlap with this policy. Direction match bolded — those are the closest historical analogues. Shape of the match is what drives policy-outcome comparison, not the country or party label.