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  1. Urgent Help Needed- New British Commonwealth

    Born in Calcutta, brought up in New Delhi, went to University in Bangalore and now in New Haven

  2. Urgent Help Needed- New British Commonwealth

    Thanks:) , all this has been really helpful so far

  3. Urgent Help Needed- New British Commonwealth

    Hi I have a research assignment for a Professor which lets me exeriment with counter factual history. (yeah!!) She wants to know if the British had a different racial policy, or were nicer to the natives how would relations between an independent India and Britain turned out? Or perhaps...

  4. alternate villains

    Evil Mrs Gandhi Indira Gandhi had all the makings of an "Axis of Evil"esque leader. She proclaimed an emergency in 1977 suspending the world's largest democracy. She suppressed civil liberties, locked up the opposition parties and allowed allowed forced sterilization in the name of "population...

  5. Ruritanian Countries

    Herzoslovakia, a small Balkan state whose Kings have a lifespan of two years is often mentioned in the early Agatha Christies. We are also informed that it has rich reserves of oil and its rulers have a tendency to contract morganatic marriages.

  6. Buddhism in India

    Buddhism attracted everyone except for the Brahmins who were profiting wildly under the old Hindu caste system. In particular, it got a lot of financial support from the merchant classes. Early Buddhist values were similiar to what Weber later described as the "protestant work ethnic"...

  7. AH Challenge: Those Dastardly Indians!

    WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!

  8. Celebrity Presidents

    I would go with Michael Moore and suggest Oprah Winfrey -Female Minority (which means more than 70% of US constituents covered), rich, successful with high name recognition

  9. AH Challenge: Those Dastardly Indians!

    Pretty easy this one. India continues as a populist state controlled economy. Its growing military clout is demonstrated by smashing Pakistan into two in 1971. Indira Gandhi as in the OTL imposed the emergency and becomes de facto dictator of the country. Unlike the OTL the emergency is never...

  10. Intrigue at Tudor Court

    http://www.archsoc.com/games/Mary.html Couple of really good games on Tudor intrigue

  11. Margaret, Queen of Norway, Scotland and England

    Any likely candidates? Couple more questions 1) How good were sea ties between Norway and British Isles. Is it feasible for one to be governed by the other? 2) If Norway controls Iceland and Greenland as in OTL and have the advantage of using British ports, then may we see an ealier...

  12. Margaret, Queen of Norway, Scotland and England

    Robert the Bruce claimed the Scottish throne as a great-great-great-great grandson of David I of Scotland. David I died in 1173 while Robert the Bruce was born in 1306. There were 5 monarchs in between. Also Robert the Bruce was embroiled in civil war with John Ballion, who was David I's...

  13. Margaret, Queen of Norway, Scotland and England

    Margaret, Princess of Norway became the Queen of Scots at the age of three on the death of her grandfather, Alexander III. Margaret set sail from Norway to her new realm in the autumn of 1290, but took ill during the stormy voyage and died soon after reaching the Orkney Islands around September...

  14. Emperor Rudolf and No Tragedy and Mayerling

    Franz Josef was old and unhappy. One of the reasons he did'nt abdicate was because his heir was Archduke Franz Ferdinand, who was notoriously unpopular.

  15. Emperor Rudolf and No Tragedy and Mayerling

    I think this was discussed ages back on the old boards, WI there is no tragedy at Mayerling and Crown Prince Rudolf surives to succeed Emperor Franz Josef. t was claimed by, among others, Empress Zita, widow of the last Emperor, Karl that the Crown Prince was killed either at the behest of...

  16. The English Habsburgs

    1)They are linked to Mary Tudor from the Uterine line (via her mother, Catherine of Aragon). Mary Tudor's claim to the throne is through her father's side. 2)There were closer Catholic heirs. Countess of Lennox has two sons, Henry (Lord Darnley) being one of them. They would probably be...

  17. Act of Settlement not passed

    Yup, Aussey we all know how you love putting women monarchs all over the Globe :) . Couple of stumbling blocks 1) The English did not want a Catholic ruler. William III and the parliament was not going to let James or Bonnie Prince Charlie come back. 2) There are certainly going to be...

  18. Act of Settlement not passed

    The Act of Settlement of 1701 famously passed succession to the British throne to Sophia Dorothea, Dowager Electress of Hanover and heirs of her body. This brought the German Georges to England, allowed the parliament to expand its powers and set forth a certain chain of events. I recently...

  19. Africa as economic miracle post-1945

    What about an African Marshall Plan? Heavy expenditure by US of A to check the spread of communism. Only have to figure out a way that the US would give this to democratically elected populist leaders.

  20. The English Habsburgs

    Why would the line of succession revert to the HRE Emperor and the Archduchesses of Austria?
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