A rant about India in ATLs

One quibble. Flocc, you've stated in the past that the Indians didn't use European style infantry until ti was too late. Some recent research on the Marathas suggests that's not true. The actual change was to a European style fiscal system, which they adopted too late. the use of infantrymen in formation goes back to the 17th century.
 
Nestorianism did arrive in the philippines and other parts of SE Asia and China as well from India and Iran but it got extinct....
 
Errrr well in "Eternal Blue Sky" TL of mine the Tengri-Hindus on the Indo-Ganges, Islamic Goa, and the Bengali Hindu are set to be the major world powers in the TL...no plans of unity whatsoever but one of these powers is going to go colonize the Americas.
 
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