AHC: Alternate Polity for India

Plausible Alternate Form of Government for India

  • Communism

    Votes: 13 52.0%
  • Monarchy

    Votes: 6 24.0%
  • Fascism

    Votes: 4 16.0%
  • Theocracy

    Votes: 2 8.0%
  • Anarchism

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Other

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    25
I've always been fascinated by the transformation of India during the immediate post-colonial period.
And it is during this period of transition from Raj to Parliamentary Democracy, that I wonder if a different path to state building couldve been taken.

So the challenge here is to first pick one of the alternate forms of government in the poll that you think India could of plausibly adopted during ('49 - '69) and then describe how with your PoD(s) it could come about.
 
To get us started iv chosen Monarchy, albiet a constitutional one.
The PoD is simply the Indian Parliament retains George VI as the HoS of a Commonwealth-member India.
 
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India is a proud nation, and it's going to be tricky getting them to accept a foreigner as master, even symbolically, after independence. It'd be akin to asking America to accept King George VI as Head of State. You want a King/Emperor, he's going to have to be from the subcontinent.

Communism is the most likely IMHO, simply given the huge numbers of poor and the feudal mentality of many of the well-off even to this day. The place would be ripe for a revolution had Congress not stolen all the oxygen from the left.
 
India is a proud nation, and it's going to be tricky getting them to accept a foreigner as master, even symbolically, after independence. It'd be akin to asking America to accept King George VI as Head of State. You want a King/Emperor, he's going to have to be from the subcontinent.
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Something I've considered as well but I don't know of any Hindu principalities that had the political chops to swing a movement for a unified Indian Kingdom with a single monarch.
Outside of the Mughals there hadn't been a monarchy with dynastic power over the subcontinent in over 500+ years so who could claim legitimacy?
 
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Communism seems most likely - though if WW2 hadn't discredited it, fascism could've been a likely system for a post-colonial nation looking to tie itself together
 
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