A More Balkanized India?

Dravia Nadu defintiely might work for what I would want to do. How Though could we divide it up into more? Like only a bit more, though maybe a unified one could still work.

An independent Karnataka/Mysore is possible, as is Kerala, as is Tamil Nadu, or a Telugu state. With the country being founded by language-based nationalism, it makes sense that it results in the rise of language-based nationalism within the new country.

How about for northern and Western India?

Sindh is possible, as is the Northwest Frontier Province and Balochistan. IOTL, there is an active Sindhi nationalism, a massive Balochi insurgency, and the North West Frontier Province tried to secede even IOTL.

As for anything more, maybe you could get some of the princely states in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh to secede, but I’m not sure how. Uttarakhand seems likelier than Himachal, anyways.

The Hindi belt forming its own countries is just plain ASB, as it is unified in language, culture, and geography.

And wonder if we could still maybe do something with Punjab... maybe they form a union with Sindh and Kashmir...?

That just sounds like a larger version of Pakistan. Rather boring, if you ask me.
 
Nobody wanted an independent Pashtunistan. The separatists wanted to join Afghanistan, and they wanted to do that by temporarily making a Pashtunistan which would then vote to merge with Afghanistan. It didn't make sense anyways. Why make a new Pashtun country when there is a perfectly good one right next door?

Ah well, that’s too bad. Only temporary independence.

Still, we have a lot of opportunities for balkanizing Pakistan, from Sindh to Balochistan to (depends on your perspective) Kashmir.
 
Ah well, that’s too bad. Only temporary independence.

Still, we have a lot of opportunities for balkanizing Pakistan, from Sindh to Balochistan to (depends on your perspective) Kashmir.

The person who came up with the Sindhu Desh movement once supported Pakistan movement, but he said that was because he thought Muslim League was not advocating for one Muslim State, but rather for many Muslim states that would ally with each other. A 1930s POD where Chaudhry Rehmat thinks differently about the "separate Muslim state" idea and you could make that a possibility, albeit a pretty small one.
 
An independent Karnataka/Mysore is possible, as is Kerala, as is Tamil Nadu, or a Telugu state. With the country being founded by language-based nationalism, it makes sense that it results in the rise of language-based nationalism within the new country.

Sounds fair. Though probably only the larger ones.

Sindh is possible, as is the Northwest Frontier Province and Balochistan. IOTL, there is an active Sindhi nationalism, a massive Balochi insurgency, and the North West Frontier Province tried to secede even IOTL.
I’m thinking Afghanistan would try and get some of that land and annex Balochistan.

As for anything more, maybe you could get some of the princely states in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh to secede, but I’m not sure how. Uttarakhand seems likelier than Himachal, anyways.

What do you mean? Not sure how may princely states could survive (though a good deal of India will remain loyal to Britain)

The Hindi belt forming its own countries is just plain ASB, as it is unified in language, culture, and geography.
What do you mean by the Hindi Belt?


That just sounds like a larger version of Pakistan. Rather boring, if you ask me.

Eh, kinda, though it’d lack Baluchistan. I am still trying to figure out the politics and such, especially as British India starts to splinter.
 
Here's an interesting idea - What if India wasn't divided on religious lines, rather than on ethnic lines? The Dravida Nadu movement becomes popular among Dravidians, while the Pakistan movement just is some fringe movement. What happens to this alt India, which has OTL Pakistan and Bangladesh, but loses the Dravidian states? I think an independent Dravida Nadu would be the most developed country in South Asia (and might even be an Asian Tiger), though that isn't a given. What do you guys think?
 
Here's an interesting idea - What if India wasn't divided on religious lines, rather than on ethnic lines? The Dravida Nadu movement becomes popular among Dravidians, while the Pakistan movement just is some fringe movement. What happens to this alt India, which has OTL Pakistan and Bangladesh, but loses the Dravidian states? I think an independent Dravida Nadu would be the most developed country in South Asia (and might even be an Asian Tiger), though that isn't a given. What do you guys think?

That is partially one of the ideas I am going for, but also going further and I think I have an idea on how it'd look like.
 
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