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So I’ve heard that following the death of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, there was a lot of talk among the Khalsa of governance by the Sikh community as a whole, and the Khalsa specifically, rather than a Maharaja whose court was becoming increasingly corrupt, “degenerate”, and dominated by Kashmiris...

Make India become a first world superpower while the USA a third-world nation with ethnic and religious tensions

I did some cursory reading on Wikipedia about the Kashmir dispute, and apparently the idea of organizing a plebiscite under UN supervision was raised by both India and Pakistan as a possible solution to the dispute. However, one side or the other rejected it on various occasions for this or that...

Following the unexpected death of Indian prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri in January 1966, the two strongest candidates to succeed him were Indira Gandhi, daughter of the late Jawaharlal Nehru, and Morarji Desai, who served in a variety of administrative posts from the 1930s onward. It was a...

Alexander's invasion has failed. Macedonia fell into a decades-long civil war and Greece reverted to Thebes, Sparta, and Athens vying for hegemony. The Persian Empire still ruled the known world, for now. The Persian King Siatimartes I, the successor of Darius III, maintained a stable and...

Abbasid Caliphate of Baghdad under the rule of the Caliph al-Musta'sim was attacked by the Mongol prince Hulegu . The city was captured and the Caliph was executed by the Mongols. Despite this Al-Mustansir II and Al-Hakim I escaped to Cairo where they were appointed as Caliphs by the Mamluk...

I can't remember where I heard it, but I remember hearing somewhere that the 1935 self-government act given to India by Britain would have sated the nationalists in 1919, while the self-government act they got then was too feeble; but in 1935 they wanted essentially independence. In OTL, of...

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https://preview.redd.it/how-do-you-guys-believe-european-history-would-shift-and-v0-bfhrwkhn3poa1.jpg?width=1080&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=bfdf804929d922e5d6bac55a71a1a5bf6a08ab1c I stole this idea from r/AlternateHistory So here are my thoughts; A Monotheistic...

OTL Bangladesh was a part of Pakistan (East Pakistan) until the liberation war in 1971, triggered by Operation Searchlight - an attempted genocide by the Pakistani army. This was in many ways inevitable, Bengalis were ethnically, racially (according to the Pakistani army atleast), linguistically...

Princess Victoria dies an infant then during the reform riots things get worse with King William assassinated causing Ernest to gain the throne and his unpopularity spuring on the British Revolution

Polygyny is a form of polygamy entailing the marriage of a man to several women.The Hindu scriptures acknowledge polygyny. It was the norm among kings, the nobility and the extremely wealthy. Polygyny remained customary and widely acceptable among Hindus until it was legally abolished for Hindus...

The Naxalites are a Maoist Indian insurgency. While they technically started in the 70s they reached their height in the 2000s. After decades of decline the various Naxalite groups united and started an offensive. While it has declined since it's still a major threat. What if during their peak...

The 18th Century was not a good time for the Mughal Empire. Previously before in the mid to late 17th Century, under Emperor Aurangzeb, the Mughal Empire expanded to its greatest height, spanning almost the entirety of the Indian Subcontinent and made the Mughal Empire economically surpassed...

So this is an idea that has been with me for an undetermined period of time. Since Chinese traders were responsible for creating large Chinese creole communities all over South East Asia, Japan had a period where Japanese traders flourish all over South East Asia and East Asia, and Korea once...

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/politics/taste-test Suppose Ahmad had strewn the poison on the fritters or into the pot, instead of wasting most of it by throwing it into the fireplace - Babur would have died or been incapacitated instead of vomitting up the poison. What would his troops and...

For those unaware, Goa refers to a Portuguese possession on the coast of India from 1505 onwards. Its population converted to Christianity as a result of Portuguese colonialism. After India became independent in 1947, they demanded that Portugal turn over Goa to them, but Portugal (then under a...

I was reading a few months ago about the reasons why the Romans created the empire that united the Mediterranean, and I was struck by a few of them: 1. The location of the Apennine Peninsula in the middle of the Mediterranean. 2. The considerable human resources of the peninsula. 3. The...

Swarajya : Maratha hegemony in the Indian subcontinent 1707 - 1828 Sangam Palace, Pune, as seen from the southern bank of the Mutha river. The Indian subcontinent during the 18th century was a wild and chaotic place. The slow collapse of the mighty Mughals saw a number of major...

A reserve currency is a foreign currency that is held in significant quantities by central banks or other monetary authorities as part of their foreign exchange reserves. The reserve currency can be used in international transactions, international investments and all aspects of the global...

This is the first part of an alternate history story that I initially wrote for a British magazine, but never got around to sending. It is set in a world where the Industrial Revolution happened in the Maratha Empire, leading to an increased emphasis on science rather than religion and...