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Iceland seems the most obvious answer. It was repeatedly offered up for sale or as collateral to England pre-1700 by Denmark, but that's before the PoD. There were multiple opportunities for the United Kingdom to annex it during the Napoleonic Wars. The issue is getting the British government...

The timeline has been worth it just for the fact it's cleaned up the the US-Canadian border. Another excellent update, looking forward to the next.

The Free Territory of Trieste remains a thing, perhaps because of a less conciliatory stance towards Italy after the war. A thousand or so more Faroese vote for independence in 1946, leading to the Faroe Islands gaining full independence from Denmark rather than autonomy.

Not sure they count as the settling wasn't led by a South Asian polity, but Trinidad and Guyana are both plurality South Asian in OTL.

It's not wise, when you've just lost the majority of British North America, to start settling convicts in the part you've managed to hold on to. It would upset the existing settlers, the convicts aren't going to be positively inclined towards the British government either, and would only...

If Sarawak gains independence, never federates with Malaysia, avoids annexation by Indonesia, and receives the same level of missionary activity, it might fit the bill. It's still currently plurality Christian even in a country with Islam as the state religion.

Protestantism and Catholicism basically amount to ethnic identities in Northern Ireland and Scotland, used to be the case in England too.

The Scottish get their name from an Irish tribe, but Scots is a Germanic language/English variant. Gaelic is the Celtic language in Scotland.

No partition of India and there's no Islamabad, Karachi would be far smaller too.

That's 3 times in quick succession I've thought there was an update, only for it to be a nothing comment. I see irony of me adding another nothing comment.

Very glad to see this back, enjoyed that update. It's good that the famine has been dealt with far better in this timeline, even if it's still a disappointingly slow response from the British government.

“It is the responsibility of every father to choose a good name for his child." "Whoever gets four sons, and he has not named even one after me has been cruel on me" - Muhammad As I understand, it's a religious/cultural tradition to name at least one of your sons after the Prophet.

Plenty of examples, but most will be down to colonialism and an overarching identity forming and solidifying upon independence. A Pakistani identity is a relatively modern thing, and it trickled down from the top.

Some of the countries on that map don't actually have English as the official language as it is. Might see the Sudanese and Somali governments keeping English as an official language when they gain independence. Similar with other former British colonies at the point of independence, like the...

Not sure you could say either of these decisions worked, which is the key point of the title. One died childless, the other was overthrown for being Catholic.