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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...

Despite both being continents with multiple kingdoms during the middle ages, Europe managed to overtake India through colonialism and industrialization with Britain managing to conquer the subcontinent in the 18th and 19th centuries. With a pod between 500-1500 a.d., how can we get the Indian...

Suppose that the Durrani army fails to cut its Maratha counterpart's supply lines, allowing them to continue to receive supplies and reinforcements. Thus, once battle is joined, the Maratha army scores a decisive victory and kicks the Afghans out of northern India. What happens next? Will the...

China and India were in a similar situation in 1950, both had just come out of a century of subservience to Western interests and both entered the second half of the century as backwater third-world countries, with the world's largest populations, experimenting Socialism(China in the...

Chapter 1: The End of An Era The Fall of the Gupta to the Hunas of Mihiragula had ended the Golden age of India. North India was now under the hands of Mihiragula and The Hunas. Indian Sources describe Mihiragula as a tyrant and a ruthless ruler. Under his reign , cities like Mathura , Ayodhya...

I was rifling through the history of Pakistan and India during and after Partition and looked at these potential PoDs. Let's say....... [1] - In 1948 Jinnah agrees with the opposition parties and makes English the governmental language, whilst making each province (including east pakistan)...

Supposing we have an Indian Dynasty (speaking an Indian language and with a Dharmic state religion) invade and rule Iran for around the same time as the Mughals ruled India. When would be the most likely time for this to occur, and what would be the effects on Iranian culture? Would it be...

I'm quite aware that this is a very, very tall order. By the mid 18th century the glory days of Akbar and his successors were a distant memory. The Marathas were expanding in the south after decades of costly war, Delhi was sacked by Nader Shah in 1739 and the British would soon take over...

The Kingdom of Mysore was a powerful, wealthy and expansionist state located in southern India. At its apogee, under the reigns of Hyder Ali and his more famous son Tipu Sultan, it stretched from the Eastern Ghats to Malabar and from the Krishna River to the borders of Travancore and the...

Samrat Siddhartha Gautama is one of the most influential figures in Human history, Born as a Prince in Shakya Republic, He was prophesied to be either the Ruler of all India or one of histories greatest philosopher, Fearing this his father kept him locked up in his kingdom for most of his life...

Maratha empire can be considered the last great Pan Indian Empire, they however collapsed due to wars across the regions from Afghans to Brits, so what if Marathas were more successful and were able to conquer most of South Asia, With minir PODs like Shivaji being alive longer and a stronger...

Mauryan Empire is one of the largest empires in Human history and the largest in India, however, it was not able to permanently unite India, But what if it did, If Mauryan Empire was able to exist for long enough that a united sense of being Indian and the Subcontinent was United entity for most...

Can a Communist Subcontinent Exist with a POD , Essentially a United British Raj that is Communist in Nature , This is inspired by my previous post called DBWI - No Communist India, and even though that was made for fun, it got me thinking how a Communist India would be in nature and how it...

Today we all know that Communist India, Alongside its so called "Blood Brother" Communist China, have emerged as Rising Superpowers, Being the Largest Economy in the world, Just a bit more than China's Economy, From Invading Afghanistan to protect the Communist Government there to Forcefully...