Challenge: Have the entire Asian colonies of Britain be in a single stable independent country

I presume a pod post 1900 makes this impossible to achieve.

The modern countries of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Malaysia, Singapore and Sri Lanka should be one independent nation. They can be as centralised as you like.

Bonus points for Hong Kong but not necessary. I would presume such a country would attempt to buy/acquire Thailand's land to connect Burma with Malaysia. So you may add reasonable extras to this country, but adding all of China is a no go, but all of Oceania is OK
 
This is ASB, but I'm just gonna wait for some people to answer to this challenging post.
It's difficult but I doubt divine, fae, or otherwise magical, intervention is needed.
The Indian countries are easiest to keep together if religious issues get downplayed - so Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh.
The East Indies can likewise be held together - Singapore was once part of Malaysia.
It might all pin on Burma. Burma was often held with India so if Burma did include Southern Thailand the Malay Peninsula might become a single administrative unit and be added to the Raj.
Bangladesh would be a geographic centre that might be at odds with the more Indian orientation.
 
Perhaps the pod to bind such disparate areas might be to have other colonial independence movements go closer to the USA

So if South America is a single independent Spanish country (and Brazil too) and the Caribbean isn't a thousand nations then perhaps people will just accept that of course they would be together?

I am not sure. If it's necessary to lose Brunei and Malaysian Borneo that's OK

Edit : I should say there is historical precedent for Singapore to be under the raj

Other areas were also administered as part of the Raj at times — Ceylon, Burma (Lower Burma 1858-1937, Upper Burma 1886-1937), Aden (1858-1937), and even briefly Singapore (1858-1867) and Somalia(1884-1898). The Trucial States on the Persian Gulfwere British protectorates 1820-1968 and for part of that time they were considered princely states of the Raj; after 1968 they became the United Arab Emirates.
 
Perhaps the pod to bind such disparate areas might be to have other colonial independence movements go closer to the USA

So if South America is a single independent Spanish country (and Brazil too) and the Caribbean isn't a thousand nations then perhaps people will just accept that of course they would be together?

I am not sure. If it's necessary to lose Brunei and Malaysian Borneo that's OK

Edit : I should say there is historical precedent for Singapore to be under the raj
Alternatively perhaps there's no ARW and British Imperial administration eventually divies up a western sphere (including the Americas and West Indies) and an eastern sphere (including the "Indias" and East Indies).
 
Alternatively perhaps there's no ARW and British Imperial administration eventually divies up a western sphere (including the Americas and West Indies) and an eastern sphere (including the "Indias" and East Indies).

That's a good pod, do you think the African and Middle East colonies would also be combined into a central sphere so to speak? I did hear once that Britain wouldn't go to India with no arw though

If such nations were stable it would significantly impact the balance of power much earlier on. Pax Commonwealthia would never wane
 
That's a good pod, do you think the African and Middle East colonies would also be combined into a central sphere so to speak? I did hear once that Britain wouldn't go to India with no arw though
A future central sphere would probably be an intent of the imperial minded.
Not sure where the idea of not expanding in India came from, there was already a presence there at the time. An ARWless world would probably lessen the more intensive expansion though so French India would still be a thing.
 
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