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    WI: Warren Hastings successfully prosecuted

    It may surprise many that Edmund Burke (1729-1797), remembered chiefly as the British nationalist advocate of reactionary established order, was also a very extreme critic of the British Raj. He saw it as "systematick iniquity and oppression", he wrote he would fight for justice in India...
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    WI: Attempted Assimilation of American immigrants in Hispanic America

    Recently, I've been reading about Spanish Louisiana and more specifically at attempts to attract immigrants towards it. One strategy was to hire agents to attract immigrants, and another was to poach Catholic immigrants to the US. These are interesting enough, but the one that sticks out to me...
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    WI: Jagjivan Ram, Prime Minister of India,1977

    First of all, some background. Since 1966, India's prime minister was Indira Gandhi, the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru. Selected for that role by the Indian National Congress's establishment, the "Syndicate", for little reason beyond her father being who he was, many believed she would serve as a...
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    Structure of government of a surviving Spanish America?

    So, Spanish America had an interesting government structure. At the top, it had the King and the Council of the Indies, who exercised executive, legislative, and judicial powers for the entire empire. Lower, it had the Viceroys and Captain-Generals as the executive for each viceroyalty and...
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    State of Hinduism without the Mughal Empire's rapid expansion and collapse

    The state of Hinduism in the Mughal Empire is something that is unexplored in AH. According to Muslim Civilization in India by S.M. Ikram: In relation to Islam, Hinduism exhibited a new vigor, greater self-confidence, and even a spirit of defiance. Hinduism is not generally thought of as a...
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    WI: An Independent British East India Company

    IOTL, the British East India Company ruled over literally all of India at its peak in the name of commercial interests. It achieved much wealth, though it went bankrupt many times. It was, overall, successful in its goals. However, as a result of a series of cultural misunderstandings, in 1857...
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    WI: British ban of the Indian indentured system continued

    In the wake of Britain’s ban of slavery, a manpower shortage emerged in the Caribbean. Ex-slaves refuses to continue to work on their former masters’ fields. The result was a labour crisis. To solve this, indentured Indian labourers were transported across the British Empire, and later other...
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    WI: Stronger Hindu-Muslim Syncretism in Gujarat

    I am referring to the Satpanth sect in this thread, a Gujarati religion which is either a Muslim-influenced sect of Hinduism or a Hindu-influenced sect of Islam, depending on who you ask. Satpanth is at least partially Nizari Ismaili, or a schism of it, as it is led by the descendants of Imam...
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    AHC: A Bengal-dominated Pakistan

    Pakistan has, since its inception, been dominated by Punjabis who make up a sizeable plurality of its population. This was even true when Bangladesh was know as East Pakistan, when Pakistan was a military junta and before that a dominion. Population-wise, prior to Bangladesh’s independence...
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    WI: More Kashmiri Hindus moving outside Kashmir

    Kashmiri Hinduism is incredibly ancient, but its history as a minority religion begins with Sikander Butshikan (Sikander the Iconoclast) in the late fourteenth century. A highly intolerant Turkic Sultan, while his predecessors at least accepted Kashmiri Hinduism, Butshikan destroyed Hindu...
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    WI: The Indo-Greeks conquer the Shunga Empire

    The Buddhist Indo-Greeks were the Bactrian Greeks at their epoch, ruling over much of the Indus Valley. However, it seems they could have expanded further. During the reign of King Menander (known in Pali as Milinda and Sanskrit as Menadra), an attempt to conquer the Shunga Empire, which ruled...
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    Would an independent Jammu and Kashmir be a failed state?

    Jammu and Kashmir (which should not be referred to as Kashmir, as that is the equivalent to calling Britain “England” - a word specifically referring to a part of the region, and mildly disparaging to the other regions), is, despite its general image as an Islamic region, a highly multicultural...
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    WI: Lingayatism in North India

    Lingayatism is a monotheistic Shaivite Indian sect. I’m unsure whether you can consider it a Hindu sect, considering it doesn’t agree on the supremacy of the Vedas, but then again, Shiva is considered a Hindu god, and most followers of it consider themselves Hindu. Its also anti-casteism...
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    WI: Mandatory Sterilization in Maharashtra, India

    India has a dark history of family planning, with mandatory vasectomy, or nasbandi, enacted in some parts of the country during the dark period of dictatorship from 1975 to 1977. During this period, millions of people were sterilized forcibly, and sterilization vans were feared across India. It...
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    WI: The British didn't invent Jammu and Kashmir

    Today, Jammu and Kashmir, often improperly known as Kashmir despite how much it infuriates the people of Jammu, is most well-known for a horrible dispute and insurgency. Yet, two hundred years ago, Jammu and Kashmir did not exist. Instead, there was Jammu, part of the Punjab region (indeed, most...
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    WI: Mysore gets a navy

    The Sultanate of Mysore under Tipu Sultan was one of the most interesting Indian kingdoms in the late eighteenth century. Under Tipu, Mysore continued to ally with France. Even after its revolution, rather than being horrified, Tipu Sultan decided to ally with the First Republic. In 1794, a...
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    WI: The Marathas focus on South India

    The Maratha Empire was able to briefly dominate North India in the late 1700s, before its various princes fought amongst each other and the Empire became a weak Confederacy prior to being conquered by the British. However, initially, at the time of the Maratha Empire's founder Shivaji, it didn't...
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    WI: China legalizes opium before the Opium Wars

    Just before the First Opium War, there was a serious debate in the Chinese royal court on whether to legalize opium. Some officials thought that legalizing it would mean a barter system between tea and opium would develop, stopping the drain of precious metals that was one of the causes of...
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    WI: Rayon discovered by Napoleonic France

    Rayon is a cellulose fibre that can, and is currently being used to an extent, as an alternative to cotton, silk, and other such substances. It was discovered as an alternative to silk in the late nineteenth century, and was the first man-made fibre. It doesn't require a very difficult process...
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    AHC: India is a monarchy post-independence

    This article asks if India could have been a monarchy after independence, and while the article has some weird errors ("There is no doubt that democracy is uniquely suited to India relative to other non-Western societies"? What the fuck? India came very close to being a dictatorship during the...
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