Without British colonialism it is hard to imagine that India would be either unified or a fairly stable democracy. Look at what happened in the other medium to large Asian nations that were not colonized by Western countries: Afghanistan, Iran, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Turkey, and, probably most relevant because of its scale, China. Without the unified government and the English language that British colonialism brought it is hard to see how India could have become unified. (English has been an important unifying factor and bridge to the rest of the world even though few Indians actually speak English as their first language.) And of the countries I listed, only Japan is a stable democracy, and that it because the United States imposed it during its post-World War II occupation of Japan. (Korea is half a stable democracy -- the southern half.) The counterfactual without British colonialism might well have been the kind of turmoil that China experienced, resulting in tens of millions of deaths.
I can't say much about Jevons's political views. I think Tyler considers the marginalists as a group in his book but doesn't get so deeply into them. I wish I knew more.
Without British colonialism it is hard to imagine that India would be either unified or a fairly stable democracy. Look at what happened in the other medium to large Asian nations that were not colonized by Western countries: Afghanistan, Iran, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Turkey, and, probably most relevant because of its scale, China. Without the unified government and the English language that British colonialism brought it is hard to see how India could have become unified. (English has been an important unifying factor and bridge to the rest of the world even though few Indians actually speak English as their first language.) And of the countries I listed, only Japan is a stable democracy, and that it because the United States imposed it during its post-World War II occupation of Japan. (Korea is half a stable democracy -- the southern half.) The counterfactual without British colonialism might well have been the kind of turmoil that China experienced, resulting in tens of millions of deaths.
Jevons?
I can't say much about Jevons's political views. I think Tyler considers the marginalists as a group in his book but doesn't get so deeply into them. I wish I knew more.