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I'm thinking of writing a Zulu timeline over my spring break, which is next week. Any ideas for a good POD? I'm thinking a POD regarding Shaka's survival, but I feel like that's been done already. I could also do some regarding Dingiswayo, his predecessor, but the historical details of that...

Prologue: Varuna's Bile The Katalkonda, liege of the Kozhikode Company, in service to Ilamcetcenni Chola IV, conqueror of Srivijaya, Lanka, and the Ganga The Inner Pacific, near Pihemanu Kauihelani(Midway Atoll) 1652 C.E The seawind bit deep into Ponniyar as he planted himself at the gunwale...

What would have happened had India had a lighter or nonexistent partition? (By "lighter" I mean that parts of Pakistan/Bangladesh might not become parts of the greater Indian nation, though the bulk of both of the aforementioned nations would remain incorporated into the union). What would have...

The Maldives have always fascinated me. Their history is sketchy and derives from only a few excavated documents, but what we do know is rather interesting; they were visited by Ibn Battuta, with their capital serving as a prominent port of call for Arab sailors, and they were Buddhist until the...

One unexplored trope in alternate history is that of an Indian power "discovering" and colonizing some part of the Americas. I understand that traversing the Pacific is markedly more difficult than crossing the Atlantic, and most Indian powers weren't even concerned with achieving territorial...

Can someone educate me as to the status and intensity of the slave trade after 1808? I know that the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves ended the legality of the slave trade, but said act was poorly enforced and the trade went on until the civil war(Nathan Bedford Forrest supposedly was a...

I've been reading a lot about these guys lately, and my interest was piqued. Had they been more moderate in their views and less militarily aggressive(and didn't assassinate the President of India), would an LTTE victory be possible? They did manage to wage war for over 30 years, and came close...