With a post-partition PoD, have strong and friendly relation between India and Pakistan, possibly going as far as limited integration.
It's not just a political difference. Since the violence of the Partition, the populations of India and Pakistan are hostile to each other. It's not really religious either. Pakistan simply fears it's sovereignty is always threatened by the larger more powerful India, and India in turn, has a number of unresolved border disputes.On this forum I have seen Communist America, Objectivist Katanga, and a Transhumanist Soviet Union. Compared to that how hard could it be to improve relations between India and Pakistan?
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Oh, agreed.On this forum I have seen Communist America, Objectivist Katanga, and a Transhumanist Soviet Union. Compared to that how hard could it be to improve relations between India and Pakistan?
-the famous last words of Alexander the Average
India invades and conquers Pakistan, but keeps it as a puppet state to keep Pakistanis from being upset.
The thing is, like I said , that India and Pakistan have poor relationships for wide-ranging and complicated reasons dating all the way back to the founding of Pakistan. Indeed, Pakistan is itself an unstable state, ruled at various points in time by military dictators, and was in fact split between two different sides of India when it first formed. The only thing those two sides had in common, by the way, is the fact they were Muslim. I can also say from personal experience, that Indians are generally very hostile to Pakistan, due to the violence that happened during the population transfers in the Partition, as well as its role in the dividing the newly independent nation. Sure, in the future, they could reconcile their differences, but it'll take a lot of effort. If you really want to have better relationships, it would be before the partition itself. Maybe a better working relationship between the Indian National Congress and the All Muslim League, which, while not keeping the nation together, at least ensures the rights of Hindus and Muslim minorities, which prevents the major violence that occurred. Or maybe prevent the "East/West Pakistan" agreement, either having Bangladesh be an independent nation from the get-go, or have it be still be part of India.Oh, agreed.
But the people that wrong those TLs didn't start by saying 'How plausible is this?', they just wrote their TLs.
Given that France and Germany have good relations now, and have since the founding of the EEC (similarly with the US and Japan), turning violent enemies into close partners is obviously possible. If, in 1944, you'd told an American that Japan would be one of the US's closest friends; or a Frenchman that Germany would be, they'd have given you even more incredulous responses than people are giving you here.
Maybe your best bet is a common, external threat. Have China attempt an invasion of both India and Pakistan, say, and the two would suddenly start working together.
Incorrect. The Indians got the Bomb to 'protect' against China, not Pakistan. Of course, once Pakistan got their own Bomb, the targeting changed.Another thing you need to do is change India's attitude. The whole reason they made their own nuclear weapons was to use it on Pakistan, and they haven't even signed the non-proliferation treaty yet.
What? Sure, India and China haven't had the best relationship (given that India was backed by the USSR, China's political enemy), but, aside from the border conflicts in the 60's, India has never really been too preoccupied by the threat of China.Incorrect. The Indians got the Bomb to 'protect' against China, not Pakistan. Of course, once Pakistan got their own Bomb, the targeting changed.
Incorrect. The Indians got the Bomb to 'protect' against China, not Pakistan. Of course, once Pakistan got their own Bomb, the targeting changed.
Yes, and only China already had the bomb; and only China could seriously threaten an invasion of India.By the time India made the bomb (1974), they had been 3 wars against Pakistan, 1 war against China.
Yes, and 'the 60s' is precisely when India started its Bomb.What? Sure, India and China haven't had the best relationship (given that India was backed by the USSR, China's political enemy), but, aside from the border conflicts in the 60's, India has never really been too preoccupied by the threat of China.
Here's a quote from Jawaharlal Nehru in 1946:Yes, and only China already had the bomb; and only China could seriously threaten an invasion of India.
I was alive at the time, and the orientation of their program was clear.
Yes, and 'the 60s' is precisely when India started its Bomb.