british raj

I can't remember where I heard it, but I remember hearing somewhere that the 1935 self-government act given to India by Britain would have sated the nationalists in 1919, while the self-government act they got then was too feeble; but in 1935 they wanted essentially independence. In OTL, of...

Princess Victoria dies an infant then during the reform riots things get worse with King William assassinated causing Ernest to gain the throne and his unpopularity spuring on the British Revolution

So in this case let's say Punjab / Panjab/ the Sikh Empire realizes what is happening around the world and, quickly industrializes and westernizes in 15 years i.e. 1831 to 1846. How does this change history after that?

Following the death of its founder, Ranjit Singh, in 1839, the Sikh Empire went through a period of turmoil, with four Maharajas in just ten years and several assassinations. Thanks to this weakness, the British managed to fully subjugate it - with some difficulty, in spite of the Sikhs...

The Duhamel Plan was the proposed Russian invasion of India during the Crimean War. It is… ambitious to say the least. The idea was to threaten the British-controlled India by invading through either Central Asia or Persia. The invasion force would consist of nearly 30,000 Russian soldiers...

After seeing the map below, I wanted to develop this scenario. How could India and China swap places after WW2? India becomes a powerful authoritarian nation. because it was expansionist at first, it controls the area of the British Raj + Tibet + Nepal + Bhutan. India claims Sri Lanka but the...

IOTL the Sepoy Mutiny was a huge but ultimately disorganized revolt that, lacking a clear leader or even a common goal, was eventually defeated in detail after the British retook Delhi in September 1857. Suppose that the rebels get a few lucky breaks in an alternate timeline, leading to this...

The Massacre of William Elphinstone's army during the 1842 retreat from Kabul was, relatively speaking, one of the worst disasters suffered by the British military: 4.500 British troops and more than 10.000 civilians were driven from Kabul and were either killed or captured by Afghan tribesmen...

Suppose that the 1857 Sepoy Mutiny or whatever is TTL's equivalent of it is much more successful than OTL, completely expelling the British East India Company from the Indian Subcontinent by the end of the 1850s. The how is irrelevant here, only the end result and its consequences. So? India is...

Like it says on the tin. What PODs, from, say, 1830 onward could help the rebels score more victories or at least hold out against the British for longer? Two good ones could be keeping the Delhi arsenal from being blown up and getting John Nicholson out of the picture somehow, since he saved...

Axis win WW2 Nazis conquer or puppetize Mainland Europe, Middle east, Central Asia, Africa and Japan puppetize China, Mongolia, Russian Far east due to US absolute neutrality i.e., no lend lease, no embargo. India,Oceania,French IndoChina and Dutch East Indies develop a siege mentality and join...

This is set in 1947 a few months after Britain leaves India, only this time the states they leave behind are even less well constructed than OTL, being split into 16 states (Including Myanmar) rather than 2 like OTL, and also split not only through religion, but also ethnicity and with...

As Jinnah and the Muslim League were granted the nation of Pakistan, could anything similar have been provided for the Christians? It's a really interesting scenario which popped up in my head a while ago, and I'm guessing this Christian nation would most likely be carved out of Northeast India...

what will happen to British Raj in India if UK falls to revolution or gets conquered by USA in WW1 like in Kaiserreich? ( they do not have Royal Navy stationed in India and Malaya is occupied by others) will colonial administration setup a stable hereditary dictatorship of governor general to...

Is there any way the Princely States could survive Independence? If so how and what is required for this to happen? Maybe, a Malay style elective monarchy in India and Pakistan?

In this scenario, Jawaharlal Nehru passes away on the eve of Indian independence due to some illness. It falls upon Patel to take the reins of the new Republic. Would there be any significant changes in Indian polity and foreign relations? What about the Kashmir issue and the war with the PRC...

Nevermind the reasons (which have been litigated at length here, please do feel free to add your thoughts there). Say the Tories win the 1945 general election. I think it's fairly obvious to everyone (with the possible exception of Churchill) that India will be getting independence in short...

This is a very hard thing to do, but let's say that Bahadur Shah Zafar rejects the Sepoys and aids the British to putting the Sepoys down. Let's say for the sake of the thread, Zafar manages to hold Delhi in a siege using his personal troops and the small British detachment in the city for as...

A bit of a weird idea I had one day, but what if/how could the Spanish Empire, instead of simply conquering dozens if not hundreds of native kingdoms through the New World and the Philippines, had mantained most of those states (but not all) in a system of protectorates and vassals much like the...

So in a TL I am working on the British decide to divide India post WWII into several smaller states rather than the OTL division of India and Pakistan. Their reasoning is that they want to continue to have influence in the region post war, and see a single unified India as a major potential...