Bengal was possibly the most developed part of India on the eve of British colonialism. Dhaka had a million people, and the geography of the region is similar to those of the Netherlands and the Yangtze Delta. That said, wages were low, unlike in the Netherlands or Britain or the Yangtze Delta. The challenge is to construct a TL in which Bengal avoided colonization and instead industrialized relatively early, at least as early as Southern Europe, if not Britain.