AHC: White Indian Population Higher Than Population of Britain

India has that--there are just swamps to drain first, in some cases. And swamps didn't prevent the settlement of the southeastern US.

That still doesn't give you necessarily useful land- and there are large numbers of locals there too. It's not like this is terra nullis (or a place where there are easily ignored tribal jurisdictions)- in India the land would still be under the jurisdiction of either the local government or the Raj itself and there would have to be a really good reason for either to really want large numbers of white settlers.

One point is that the British authorities hated the idea of "poor whites" cluttering up their subcontinent because they felt it provided a very poor propaganda example to Indian elites. This was one reason why British regiments in India were so strictly separated from the actual Indian populace.
 
One point is that the British authorities hated the idea of "poor whites" cluttering up their subcontinent because they felt it provided a very poor propaganda example to Indian elites. This was one reason why British regiments in India were so strictly separated from the actual Indian populace.

It's tough, pretending to be Draka... :)

Bruce
 

katchen

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India's a terrible place to do this because of the climate. The one place in India where one gets large numbers of locals converting en masse to Christianity (and some by the 1960s deciding they are Jewish and the lost tribe of Manasseh (the Bnai Menasseh) www.huffingtonpost.com/.../bnei-menashe-move-to-israel-indian-jews-from- lost-tribe-arrive-in-holy-land-photos_n_2359086.html, www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4334963,00.html, www.[B]bneimenashe[/B].com/ ) is Northeast India and Northern Myanmar, where Kuki, Mizo, Naga, Chin and Kachin tribes converted from animisim to Christianity and have resisted attempts by India and Myanmar to convert them to the dominant Hinduism and Buddhism. Although the numbers are mimiscule by Asian standards, we're still talking about several million people. :eek:
 
India's a terrible place to do this because of the climate. The one place in India where one gets large numbers of locals converting en masse to Christianity (and some by the 1960s deciding they are Jewish and the lost tribe of Manasseh (the Bnai Menasseh) www.huffingtonpost.com/.../bnei-menashe-move-to-israel-indian-jews-from- lost-tribe-arrive-in-holy-land-photos_n_2359086.html, www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4334963,00.html, www.[B]bneimenashe[/B].com/ ) is Northeast India and Northern Myanmar, where Kuki, Mizo, Naga, Chin and Kachin tribes converted from animisim to Christianity and have resisted attempts by India and Myanmar to convert them to the dominant Hinduism and Buddhism. Although the numbers are mimiscule by Asian standards, we're still talking about several million people. :eek:

Well you also had Kerala which had indigenous Syrian Christians (and Jews) along with a large number of Catholic converts (converted by the Portuguese)
 
It's tough, pretending to be Draka... :)

Bruce

Well, that was it, really. The entire ethos of British rule was to portray the District Commissioner as the unsullied representative of a master race, handing down godlike commands from On High and ruling his district like a loving father.

If you have Nicholas Potter, late of the Ninth Rifles, now at leisure, lolling around the bazaar getting drunk all day and puking in front of the natives, this pose is harder to keep up.
 
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