india

In 1991 India was in an economic crisis caused by balance of payments deficit. The fall of the Eastern Bloc, which was significant for India's trade resulted in that deficit. India's foreign exchange reserves were not enough to finance even three weeks' worth of imports. India requested loans...

Delete

Sepoy mutiny was caused by annexation of Oudh under the doctrine of lapse. Oudh was very important because most of the soldiers i.e., Sepoys of the Bengal Army which ruled most of British India were recruited from the clansmen of feudal lords of Oudh. After it's annexation the estates of those...

सूर्यपथांची कथा: साम्राज्याची उद्भव (Epic of The Shining Path: Dawn of an Empire) Raghunathrao Apte 14th January, 1761 Panipat, Delhi Subah It was sunrise, the day of Makar Sankranti, the Kite Festival. Sadashivrao Bhau let out a sigh of relief. Thank God he hadn't let those pilgrims come...

In 1406 Vijayanagara emperor Deva Raya I invaded the Bahmani Sultanate to kidnap a Goldsmith's Daughter because she refused his marriage as no woman returned after entering his palace, Sati burning of all thousands of a Raya's woman upon his death including Queens, his own insecurity as two of...

It's often though that the main cause for Indian partition, at least in the beginning, was the Muslim reformist and leader Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, who first began to float the idea of a unified Muslim political organization in direct opposition to the Indian nationalist movement. This was most...

Alexander the great reaching China... ASB of course. But before you start berating me, let me mention that in OTL the life of Alexander is in fact pure ASB: the conquest of Egypt, Mesopotamia and Persia, reaching India… Aren’t those the product of a intoxicated imagination? That can’t be for...

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...