Why India Missed the Industrial Revolution: Labor Abundance and Social Structure Cited
India's abundant labor, rigid social structure, and economic inertia may have prevented the onset of the Industrial Revolution. While periods in the 6th century CE and the early modern Deccan saw conditions ripe for industrialization, external factors halted progress.
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