india

The Year is 484, and the Frankish Empire has been defeated, and the victorious Soissons moves in on its territory, halting the barbarian advance. However, they still reign on in Iberia, Italy, Britain and Africa. The King of Soissons, instead of invading them, decides that hopefully the majority...

I’m writing a collection of short stories set in a fictional universe where India is a hegemonic superpower state called the United States of India (economic, cultural, military superpower similar to the OTL USA). What should be the POD for some of the below story plots to be plausible? Key...

Historical Note 1671 is a year that is enshrined in the memory of Assam, for it is the year in which Lachit Borphukan and his army defeated the might Mughal war machine at Saraighat. The battle and Lachit’s leadership proved a turning point in the war between the Mughals and Ahoms as it...

Chapter 1, The Battle of Porto Praya Suffren’s Shadow: A History of the Naval War in the Indian Ocean, 1777-1783 The Battle of Porto Praya, for all of its diminutive size compared to other great naval battles of the American Revolution, compared to First Ushant, the Chesapeake, Grenada, the...

In the early 20th century I'd say India was already on a inexorable path towards independence outside the British Empire. However I'm not sure at what point India's divorce between Islamic and Hindu parts was inevitable. I don't think k it had become inevitable by 1900, there was latent Hindu...

India is a massive mixing pot of different ethnic groups, religions, cultures, and customs all in one massive subcontinent. It is also a hot bed of religious and ethnic tensions between these various groups, though its clear that the Hindis, being at least 41% of the population according to a...

In real history, the Alchon Hunas (not to be confused with their possible relatives who invaded the Roman Empire c. 440) were a Central Asian tribe who invaded India between around 480 (after a previous Huna incursion had been defeated c. 460 by Skandagupta, the last important ruler of the Gupta...

Since lately I've been pretty fascinated by the Bengal Sultanate, and in one of my new TL projects I'd love to try and keep it alive. The effects on the region could be very interesting, especially if the Sultanate expands into Assam and develops closer ties with Burma (which might even go...

The Chagatai ruler Duwa launched numerous attacks on Punjab and Delhi regions in the 1290s and 1300s, ending only with his death. It appears to have been a major preoccupation of his rule, compared to his weaker predecessors who followed the powerful general Kaidu in warring with Yuan China over...

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...

The Fourteen Points was made by Muhammad Ali Jinnah in 1929 in response to the Nehru Report. The Nehru Report was the Indian National Congress’s proposal for a government of an independent India. The Muslim League, led by Jinnah, opposed the report on the grounds that it didn’t provide enough...

The Sikh Empire was at war with the rulers of what is now modern day Afghanistan for most of its existence, first kicking them out of the Punjab and, once that was done, taking Peshawar from them, forever confining Kabul's power to the regions west of the Khyber Pass. My question is, can Ranjit...

What if India had remained united after independence in 1947 instead of being divided into two countries? What would be the impact on Asia and the world as a whole? How would India be different from OTL? I assume that whitout the partition, there would be no mass population transfers causing...

I've been a regular lurker on this forum for a while, and decided to pick this account back up again. Being a Muslim IRL, this PoD has always fascinated me, so I decided to post on the forum and see what you fine folk think, with the idea of maybe making a timeline if there's some interest in...

It is said that history is written by the victors. Those that survive the battle, even though they lose, gets to keep their narrative alive. This story that I am about to tell you is somewhat similar but with much….. greater effects it has in the history of Bhārata. First Battle of Tarain...

India and Afghanistan often term their relationship as 'bhai-bhai' which loosely translated means (I think) "forever brothers." Pakistan has often borne the brunt of Afghan criticism in different decades even though they've done so much to open their borders during the Afghan Soviet invasion. It...

The assassination of one of Aurangzeb’s grandson, Azim-us-shan in the camp of the Afghan troublemaker Rahim Khan in Bengal had the emperor personally send Zabardast Khan again to bring the bandit to heel [1]. Just like what he did with Azim-us-shan, Rahim Khan tried to treacherously invite him...

Hemu was a Hindu merchant who rose in wealth and power during the days of the Sur Empire, eventually becoming a general. In the turmoil that ensued in the 1550s, with said empire gradually tearing itself apart and the Mughals reasserting their presence in northern India, Hemu captured Delhi in...

I am studying more about the Rebellion in India against the British East India company starting in 1857. As well as other wars involving the British Empire around that time in such as the First Anglo Afghan War, the First and Second Anglo-Sikh wars, Crimean war, Anglo-Persian War, 2nd Opium war...