AHC: Evil India

One where this guy's party gets into power maybe.

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Well, assuming we're talking about an ostensibly Marxist group, they MIGHT actually make a concerted effort at attacking the caste system. Even if that meant killing every upper-caste person who refused to renounce his priviliges.

Or, if they were really on the effed-up hypernationalist side of things, they might extoll caste as a uniquely Indian cultural inheritance, and kill anyone who tried to abolish or even ameliorate it. But I think that would probably be beyond the pale for any group calling itself Communist, even a KR-type outfit dedicated to celebrating the supposed good ol' days of pre-modernity.
 
An Indian offshoot of the Khmer Rouge taking power in Delhi would be an interesting timeline idea.
Though I see it quickly descending into dark, mostly unreadable themes.
 
what if there was an evil Hindu Stalinist-Pol pot type regime in a United India

Evil is not an actual thing, and honestly of the two times where communists could plausibly take power in India it would likely be either the CPI under MN Roy, an anti-Stalinist who eventually abandoned Marxism for humanism. Otherwise the Indian communists with ambitions of state power were Maoists.
 
Depends on your viewpoint and where you come from in that regard- there's many beliefs where evil is present, even expected. Thinking that the statement "genocide is wrong" is just as arbitrary as not liking Brussel sprouts raises a lot of questions in and of itself.

With regards to a Maoist regime in India, the result would be downright terrifying. In otl, Indias population is nearly as high as China's, and if you add Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and other areas of the former Raj on top, you're looking at a very high population at risk. Of course, unlike China, India is very far from ethnically homogeneous and so any cultural revolution would likely indeed become a major civil war which makes the Warlord period look like a playground fight. I find it unlikely that such groups would make their way to power, but it's nevertheless a very interesting state of affairs to discuss.
 
EdT's timeline A Greater Britain had a Hindutva National Socialist Bharatavarsha, but it was only a small part of the timeline. It was probably a pretty evil India.
 
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