As it says on the tin. With a POD of your choice, keep communism from developing its decisive atheist standpoint on religion.
Communism in India doesn't particularly care one way or the other about religion. It rejects favouritism towards religious organisations and practices but hasn't got any actual issues with religion.
It helps that Indian religions don't actually work in the same exclusive way as Abrahamic religions do.
I've heard of ideas for timelines where a collapsing Ottoman Empire ends up becoming an Islamic Socialist state, with the ideology that the Caliphate and the dictatorship of the proletariat are the same thing...
I do wonder if a movement could have arisen that seeked to 'return' Ottoman governence back to a super-idealized conception of the medieval Caliphate.
"The Peoples' Ummah", something like that. There are serious anarchist and egalitarian streams within Islam, I could see the idea of "Submission to Allah, not to man" being turned into a kind of Islamic utopia, equivalent to the final stage of Marxist dialectic.
Maybe somehow the new 'Caliph' and a community of imams could become something like the "vanguard party" in Leninism, acting as the group that would "guide the Ummah and its people to its final stage of total submission to Allah alone".
Hmm. Sounds similiar to what I was thinking of, with just a few minor differences.
"The Peoples' Ummah", something like that. There are serious anarchist and egalitarian streams within Islam, I could see the idea of "Submission to Allah, not to man" being turned into a kind of Islamic utopia, equivalent to the final stage of Marxist dialectic.
Maybe somehow the new 'Caliph' and a community of imams could become something like the "vanguard party" in Leninism, acting as the group that would "guide the Ummah and its people to its final stage of total submission to Allah alone".