AHC: Multiple Colonies of India

So your challenge is, with a PoD after the Napoleonic wars, to allow for the subcontinent of India to not be dominated not just by the British, but by another power as well. The other power in question must control a sizable portion of India (at least 1/4 of the Raj's OTL territory) for at least as long as the British do. Bonus points if more than one other power controls a large part of India as well.
 
So your challenge is, with a PoD after the Napoleonic wars, to allow for the subcontinent of India to not be dominated not just by the British, but by another power as well. The other power in question must control a sizable portion of India (at least 1/4 of the Raj's OTL territory) for at least as long as the British do. Bonus points if more than one other power controls a large part of India as well.
pods too late, its nearly impossible.
 
Yeah, after Plassey the British really make it hard for the French to get a look in. With the Dutch kicked out during the Napoleonic Wars and the Third Anglo-Marathan War coming so soon after 1815 as to be unavoidable within a couple of years and no-one in a position to actually stop the British there.

About the only possibilities are in Burma and Sindh, and even there it's remote.
 
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