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My knowledge of indian history is really sketchy, so I'd like some help with this. Esentially, what is the best POD for a balkanized India post-1947? With Balkanized I mean that the subcontinent ought to be divided in many countries (say 7 or 8) instead of only two or three as in OTL. I think that there are two easy possible points:

-Gandhi is murdered by a muslim, religious civil war swamps India in the middle of a war with Pakistan.
-India and Pakistan are never separated, but religious tensions tear apart the new Dominion/Republic during the 50's. This could also include a Vietnam-like scenario for the british empire.

what are your thoughts? bonus points for a) making some of those successor states communist b)allowing princely states as Hyderabad to survive.
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