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I have been wondering were there any serious alternative proposals to the partition of British India? A few questions I have are...

In OTL we obviously had Pakistan and India along with the smaller states of Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, Burma, Ceylon, and Hyderabad. However, with all the preexisting princely state governments did any of those, such as Mysore or Kashmir and Jammu, wish to become independent states? Also, instead of created one large state for the Muslim population, what about splitting Pakistan along ethnic lines creating and independent Punjab, Baluchistan, and Sindh? Wouldn't the UK think it better to create more small states that would be more susceptible to British influence? My last question is were there any areas in India that were more pro-British than others and would have accepted and kept Dominion status?
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