Challenge - Avoid Colonialism in Africa and Asia

Your challenge, should you take it, is to make sure, with a POD of 1700, that most of Africa and Asia should remain under native rulers and not European ones by 1900. This includes no client states, no corporations like the East India Company, though tradings posts such as Bombay and Hong Kong are allowed, as well as the possesions already held by European powers, like the Philipines.
 
Yes it would. Should have really put that in the first post, but I guess I forgot. Nothing a quick edit can't fix.

Crap. I'm not too knowledgeable in regards to Old World history but the Anglo-Mysore Wars could had gone the other way around and led to at the very least making the chances of a British Raj to be implausible.

Africa's much harder. Smarter policies by the Muhammed Ali dynasty in Egypt could had avoided Egypt becoming a client state of Britain. Tripoli, Algiers, and Tunis could had tried to go the road of Egypt and break off from Ottoman hegemony.
 
Somehow the British don't take Cape Town thus having the Boers move inland?
Maybe that would work. Also having a stronger Zulu state (hard, since OTL was actually a bit of a Zuluwank), may discourage Europeans away from the good farmlands of the rest of Southern Africa.
 
Maybe that would work. Also having a stronger Zulu state (hard, since OTL was actually a bit of a Zuluwank), may discourage Europeans away from the good farmlands of the rest of Southern Africa.

Well I think as long as you avoid the British needing to conquer Cape Town from the Dutch, I doubt there would be much incentive for the Boers to head inland since the Dutch pretty much let the Boers do what they wanted. Time could bode well for the Zulu but then again a strong Zulu state emerged in reaction to the increasing European presence in the area so I don't know. For east Africa, you can have the Omani empire maintain control of the area or the Sultanate of Zanzibar,

 
Well, the OTL Scramble for Africa was mostly for prestige and such anyway. If European imperialism had suffered reversals in Asia, then there might not be the same kind of imperialist competition that led to the Scramble. The existing European colonies of 1700 might have, to some extent, been abandoned with the contraction of the slave trade in the interim.

The primary issue would be pushing the Europeans out of Asia, which would be a more challenging prospect. Assertive East Asians building galleons and heavy cannons might be able to do it.
 
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