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What if John Hinckley, Jr., succeeds in killing Ronald Reagan on March 30th, 1981, 2:25pm local in Washington, D.C.? Looking forward to your response!

I would discount that. Indians generally are difficult to mobilize en masse for a cause. The amount of differences between the people here makes it difficult to find a common denominator. To mobilize a significant portion of the population for an armed struggle will be difficult. The reason the...

Yes, a very nice quote by Gandhi Ji indeed. However that was not how the Muslim league and its leader perceived him. And eventually they convinced millions of Indian muslims to their viewpoint, when Gandhi and Nehru were arrested in 1940. Whatever one's opinion of Jinnah maybe, he was...

For 'No partition' in a reasonable scenario you need the following 9 divergences from OTL. 1) For my first PoD, Gandhi dies in the Second Boer War. Neither he nor his ideas never make it out of Africa. 2) Lord Curzon is not appointed as Viceroy. Please anybody but him. Suppose for a second...

Germanicus was nowhere close to the Teutoburg forest when the battle took. Are you sure you don't mean Publius Quinctilius Varus? Well the Romans about as well entrenched in Eastern Germany as they were in Northern Gaul in the decade after Caesar's conquest. The process of Romanisation and...

Weren't the dead sea scrolls like parchment? Well at least most of them? I forget if parchment is more durable than papyrus, but afaik it is.

I disagree with the scheming politician bit. Makes him sound like a bollywood movie villain imho. He was an ambitious man no doubt. He was alos very self centered and narcissistic too. ANd he thought no end to himself. None of these make him a scheeming politician. In fact his first major outing...

Actually IMHO the simplest way to ensure india is not divided is if Jinnah remains in charge. If he had the chance of being the leader of a united india, he would have taken it. And in that case he would have prefered a strong central government set up. Also if there was no pakistan, there...

OTL something along the lines of the Consociationalism existed in Lebanon. Didn't turn out too well for them. Acceptance of Jinnah's fourteen points is critical to getting Jinnah's support. Or at least some of the fourteen points. Some points IMHO are just counter-productive. More...

Allow me to present some history about the man before we continue. Jinnah joined the INC in 1904, a decade before Gandhi was anywhere on the INC's radar. He was the member of the moderate faction of Congress which advocated for hindu-muslim unity and self-rule through constitutional means. He...

@OP Well to be honest we really have to see which specific set of reforms are we talking about. The early INC was more concerned with better administration of the Indian Empire. However they also stressed strongly on equal status for the British and the Indian natives with regards to not just...

Anyways here is the new update as promised... :) The Sun Never Sets - A British Raj TL ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update #1 Excerpt from “Lord Ripon & the Act that wasn’t” an article by Dr. B. C. Banerjee , The Hindu...

So yeah i am having a bit of a problem trying to figure out hinsert images, anyone have any idea? can you please show me how too... Sorry :o:o:o:(

The Sun Never Sets Update 2.0 Excerpt from “Lord Ripon & the Act that wasn’t” an article by Dr. B. C. Banerjee , The Hindu, Calcutta Edition, Volume 11, No. 300, Monday, October 27th, 1997, Calcutta, Bengal Province, Dominion of India. “.. The Illbert bill, or as some like to name...

Now wouldn't that be quite the alternate history? :D

@Stark this used to be the only thread about the TL. It had all the updates. I was planning on starting a story only thread. This time around i will launch the story only thread when i get to about ten updates. @quinazacity Thank you. Hope you enjoy the TL in its new avatar. :) I would...

Hello, So this thread has been in stasis for almost a year now. Gosh, i sure do hope it isn't locked by now. And i can't even begin to say how sorry i feel about letting it fade away. And as such i have decided to resurrect it from the dead. In the interim i have worked out most of the...

@OP Doubting Thomas went to India. Then founded the Syrian Thomas church here, its still around. (kinda) In fact my roommate in first year was one of them. He claimed to be descended of one of the original convert families. BTW side note. According to legend when Thomas got off the boat...

OOC: Just a side note: it would be a lot more devastating if you have the conflict flare up at some time around 2027. The Indian economy will be a lot larger by then and a lot more integrated into the world economy. It will also be around that time that india becomes the most populous...

Actually there is a theory that the cult of Hari is derived from the cult of Heracles who was popular among the troops of Alexander, many of whom settled in north-western part of the subcontinent. Later on it got subsumed into the Vishnu and Krishna cult. I don't think Indian and Hellenic...