Earliest abolition of Licence Raj

The Licence Raj was a series of socialist economic policies which severely stifled Indian economic growth. It was abolished in the 1990s. However, could it had been abolished earlier and if so, when is the earliest?
 
If you can butterfly the Indian Mutiny, which basically means getting shot of the reasons Britain drove the Indians to revolt in the first place, which probably means an alternate ending to the Napoleonic Wars, then it would never have existed to begin with.

Probably 1814, then.
 
If you can butterfly the Indian Mutiny, which basically means getting shot of the reasons Britain drove the Indians to revolt in the first place, which probably means an alternate ending to the Napoleonic Wars, then it would never have existed to begin with.

Probably 1814, then.

he means this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licence_Raj I don't get what a bunch of PoDs in the 19th Century has to do with the economic policies of the INC if do please enlighten me
 
Could India outproduce China? If so, India could influence east Africa like china does. Proxy wars in east Africa with pro-indian pro-chinese sides maybe? India might be able to win all territorial disputes with Pakistan. Nepal and Bhutan joining India could be a possibility.
 
Could India outproduce China? If so, India could influence east Africa like china does. Proxy wars in east Africa with pro-indian pro-chinese sides maybe? India might be able to win all territorial disputes with Pakistan. Nepal and Bhutan joining India could be a possibility.

I'm not asking what if India liberalized earlier, I am asking when and how it can liberalize the earliest post 1947.
 
I'm not asking what if India liberalized earlier, I am asking when and how it can liberalize the earliest post 1947.
Apologizes, got a bit over myself. Maybe a bad Indian recession least to a change in economic policy? Or a sound Indian loss against Pakistan and China could discredit the current institution, creating changes in the Indian government could also do the trick.
 
As I see it the license raj, the way it functioned or failed to do so, is a straight- line development of the Indian Civil Service under the actual raj, many of the people and their habits were the same, and the ICS was the way it was because it was set up that way- to be intensely, immensely bureaucratic, with virtually everything possible accounted for, with virtually no initiative permitted, that was essentially the design brief. Corruption actually improved it, supposedly.

The best chance to prevent that is indeed, I reckon, 1814, before the cultural arteries harden after Waterloo, and you still have redcoats wandering around marvelling at everything, the narrow- minded arrogance that bred much of the troubles of the mid century hasn't yet set in, and the ICS and it's children like the permit raj are not yet inevitable.

What, only post 1947? Hm.
 
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