east india company

So I was looking for a good alt-hist story centred around India when I came across this one by Jayant Narlikar, who's famous in India as an astrophysicist and author of science fiction, but not someone I'd expect to write alt-hist. Then I read it and found that it was actually science fiction...

I understand that a commonly discussed topic here is the failure of the American Revolution. Usually, the discussion centers around North America and Europe. However, I feel like India is overlooked as a source of potential butterfly effects from a failed American Revolution considering the...

Despite ending with a peace treaty that permanently crippled Burma's economy (and thus its ability to defend itself), the First Anglo-Burmese War was an extremely expensive undertaking for the British as well, driving the EIC to the brink of bankruptcy. So, was there any way British finances...

IOTL the Sepoy Mutiny was a huge but ultimately disorganized revolt that, lacking a clear leader or even a common goal, was eventually defeated in detail after the British retook Delhi in September 1857. Suppose that the rebels get a few lucky breaks in an alternate timeline, leading to this...

Like it says on the tin. What PODs, from, say, 1830 onward could help the rebels score more victories or at least hold out against the British for longer? Two good ones could be keeping the Delhi arsenal from being blown up and getting John Nicholson out of the picture somehow, since he saved...

While not as well remembered in this site as the Battle of Plassey, the Battle of Buxar was just as (if not even more) important in the establishment of British hegemony in India, since it consolidated their control of Bengal and turned Oudh/Awadh into their puppet. What if they lost...

I am interested in making a thread in which the Indians win revolt of 1857.Pls vote in the poll so that I may know ur option

With a POD of 1756 to 1800, what if the United States forman trading company, a United States East India Company or American East India Company. This company goes to East, trading with India, and even Persia, Arabia, China, Japan and Africa. It is optional to have the USEIC/AEIC control...

Exactly what the title says, find a way to prevent the East India Company from being dissolved by the British government.

After reading Wikipedia's article on the origins of the American flag awhile back, I stumbled across an interesting tidbit about why the Grand Union flag and the flag of the East India Company were so similar. Apparently, this isn't coincidental, and the original American flag was inspired by...

Hi chaps, working privately on a timeline in which at one point there is a very big war resulting from an anglo-french intervention in an ACW. While looking a bit into what the ideological fall out would be I wondered if it would be possible to re-establish the BEIC in some form or another. TTL...

This is partly inspired by the discussion about Maratha India while considering the possibility of Britain still managing a partial conquest. In other words: if Britain (or the East India Company) had stopped, or rather, had been stopped, in its total conquest of India, where and when would...

As the title says, suppose that somehow the Habsburg established Ostend Company were to survive (and begin to thrive). Originally it might be little more than a vanity project (I've never seen records for its returns in its brief existence, and since the British/Dutch made its closure...

Let’s say that the Carnatic Wars in the mid 18th Century go differently from OTL, with the effect that Britain does not emerge as the dominant power in the subcontinent (France isn’t kicked off, Bengal isn’t turned into a privatized kingdom, etc). My question here - how does this affect...

After doing some random readings about Southeast Asia I found a curious fact about the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824-1826): It says that the Burmese general Maha Bandula decided to not attack the British in Chittagong, in a cautious tactic as he didn't want to risk overstretching the supply...