AHC: Make the Raj survive as long as possible

Essentially try and keep the British Raj as a system of colonial government alive without moving to democratisation and dominion status. Alternate solutions can be used as well so the government structure doesn't need to remain static. Also, the Raj doesn't necessarily need to obey parliament and could eventually unilaterally declare independence if that works as well. The earliest allowed POD is 1890AD.
 
Essentially try and keep the British Raj as a system of colonial government alive without moving to democratisation and dominion status. Alternate solutions can be used as well so the government structure doesn't need to remain static. Also, the Raj doesn't necessarily need to obey parliament and could eventually unilaterally declare independence if that works as well. The earliest allowed POD is 1890AD.
Avoiding both World Wars is necasary in both scenario’s, with both wars making retaining control of India practically impossible.

However as the decades go by retaining control will remain increasingly hard.

I can’t see control being maintained past the 1970’s at the latest and that would probably consist of a bloody rebellion.

It’s a system that can only be maintained as long as the British Empire remains strong, something that is impossible to maintain.
 
The problem is that Britain's use of indirect rule and locals in its administration of colonies held the seeds of its own destruction – eventually your going to have a group of locals who are educated and to a certain extent westernised that will start to chafe at the restrictions they run up against, creating a nucleus for political agitation.
 
The problem is that Britain's use of indirect rule and locals in its administration of colonies held the seeds of its own destruction – eventually your going to have a group of locals who are educated and to a certain extent westernised that will start to chafe at the restrictions they run up against, creating a nucleus for political agitation.
Yup. Keeping all the 'natives' away from the ideas so common in the metropole and there is a chance (it is telling that Congress started out among the most Anglified segments of the Indian population), but not much of one and at great cost.

Now of course if you want to keep the British Monarch as the Head Of State/Imperial Overlord of as much of South Asia as possible, then things get easier.
 
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