Difficult, that's about ten times the number there are today in OTL. I suppose if the EIC had continued its policy of encouraging its men to marry native wives and Victorian social attitudes were delayed or avoided?
Wouldn't that also lead to a significant Indian-descended minority in Britain proper as well?
How can we get it so that there is a substantial (say, at least 5%) minority of British descended people in the subcontinent?
Note I mean all of India, so the parts that split off (Pakistan and likewise) can count as well.
Benjamin Disraeli could persuade Queen Victoria to move the Imperial Capital from London to Delhi in 1877, the same year as he makes her Empress of India. The same as Constantine moved the capital from Rome.
Benjamin Disraeli could persuade Queen Victoria to move the Imperial Capital from London to Delhi in 1877, the same year as he makes her Empress of India. The same as Constantine moved the capital from Rome.
He could argue that Britain was now a new imperial Empire blah, blah and the inhabitants of India were just as much her subjects as the British People. Therefore, she should move to a place where MOST of her subjects live. It would also make Britain or rather the Imperial elite less vulnerable to defeat in a Europen war and British commerce would benefit from more exploitation of India's vast resources if the Imperial capital was Delhi and not London.
If she complains about leaving Balmoral tell her that Kashmir is just as good as Scotland.
If she goes then the machinery of imperial government goes with her. Thousands of civil servants, police, engineers, soldiers and businessmen along with their families go. With improvements in medical science at the end of the 19thc most would survive the climate.
I can see no other way of significantly increasing the % of British in India.
I'm sure the British in the UK will love that![]()
Avoid the Sepoy Mutiny. It would've allowed for continued intermarriage between British men and Indian women. It's not much but it's something.
Benjamin Disraeli could persuade Queen Victoria to move the Imperial Capital from London to Delhi in 1877, the same year as he makes her Empress of India. The same as Constantine moved the capital from Rome.
This is ASB territory.
This is ASB territory.
there are 1,521,680,000 people in what was British India, 5% of that is 76,084,000, there are only 62,041,708 people in the UK today.