Rule of law as institutional substrate — contract enforcement, judicial independence, equal treatment before the law. Upstream of most other axes.
The Indian Councils Act 1909 expanded the Imperial Legislative Council and provincial legislative councils, introduced an elective principle into council membership, and widened members' ability to discuss budgets and move resolutions. At the same time, executive power remained firmly with the Viceroy and governors, and the act introduced separate Muslim electorates that institutionalised communal representation. It was the first major constitutional reform of twentieth-century British India and the base from which later Raj-era representative institutions expanded.
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.