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Your challenge, should you accept it, is to have an independent India (whether as a Commonwealth realm/Dominion, Commonwealth republic, or whatever) look like this map below - obviously minus Iran, Afghanistan, and Nepal (despite the looks to the contrary), but including Aksai Chin, the Maldives, Socotra, and the BIOT - with a POD no earlier than 1901. Bonus points for writing a short but plausible TL having exactly that happen, either here or as a separate thread (so long as, in the latter, this challenge is linked).