I am studying more about the Rebellion in India against the British East India company starting in 1857. As well as other wars involving the British Empire around that time in such as the First Anglo Afghan War, the First and Second Anglo-Sikh wars, Crimean war, Anglo-Persian War, 2nd Opium war, etc. With Britian having made so many enemies in Asia during this period I think I should be relatively easy to create a POD in which some enemy of the British decides to break whatever temporary alliance they had and provide aid to the Sepoys and other Indians fighting against The Company in India. I'm just not sure how the specifics might play out. I think it a POD involving one of the other wars mentioned would be best. As well as a POD the effects the timing of the Rebellion, either having it start sooner or later than OTL. So what PODs might lead to Russia, Persia, Afghanistan, the Qing, or any other government, to making the decision to send aid to the rebels in India?
I started thinking of this more after reading about Josiah Harlan and his time in India and Afghanistan. Part of me wonders if its plausible to create a TL in which he returns to the Afghanistan and helps convince Dost Mohammad Khan to send aid to the Sepoys
I started thinking of this more after reading about Josiah Harlan and his time in India and Afghanistan. Part of me wonders if its plausible to create a TL in which he returns to the Afghanistan and helps convince Dost Mohammad Khan to send aid to the Sepoys