Adventurers into Kings.

James Brooke was a British adventurer whose exploits in the Malay Archipelago made him the first White Rajah of Sarawak.

So what if more European adventurers carved out kingdoms in Africa and Asia just like Brooke.
 
I wonder, if Britain had not achieve hegemony in India (say no 7 Years War or a less successful one), that the subcontinent would be a good starting point for these empires.
 
Marie Ier of the Kingdom of Sédang is a good inspiration. Look at the republic of Counani, not a kingdom but close enough. Voulet-Chanoine of course, although it didn't last
 
India might be one possible target of these adventurer. But I am not sure can these kingdoms survive post-colonial era.
 
James Brooke was a British adventurer whose exploits in the Malay Archipelago made him the first White Rajah of Sarawak.

So what if more European adventurers carved out kingdoms in Africa and Asia just like Brooke.

There was this adventurer who became an Indian Madrasa...
 
The Man Who Would Be King is a fantastic fictional story and movie starring Sean Connery and Michael Caine about this being done in central Asia.
 
Walter Reinhardt Sombre is a mysterious figure (he's variously thought to be German, French, Austrian, Swiss or Luxemburg-ish). He kicked around India in the 1750s-60s, changing sides constantly before entering the service of the Nawab of Bengal and slaughtering British civilians at Patna. He then fled justice and was made ruler of Sardhana by the Mughal Emperor. After his death his nautch girl wife ruled Sardhana for six decades.

The Clunies-Ross family settled the uninhabited Cocos/Keeling Islands with Malaysian workers and called themselves kings for five generations before the Australian government decided that the feudal regime was unattractive and forcibly bought them out in the 1970s. The last crown prince now catches clams or somesuch.
 
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