Given the fact that India was for a long time on the short stick-end of global Capitalism, a socialist turn for India is highly likely with post-1900 PODs, although not really inevitable until the National Congress had taken its modern form under Nehru's leadership by the 1940s. That being said, it seems plausible that different British policies post-1900 and different currents in Indian political history might give you a far more capitalism-friendly India post-independence under different management: earlier PODs are better than later ones.
Or we could go full speed in the opposite direction if we have PODs going back before the Russian revolution: Stalinist-type mass mobilization was certainly more successful at fast heavy industrialization than the Congress Party's Fabianism-with-a-million-miles-of-red-tape. If Red India breaks away from Britain in the 1940s, it might well be putting people in orbit by the 80s, albiet at horrendous human costs...
Bruce
Or we could go full speed in the opposite direction if we have PODs going back before the Russian revolution: Stalinist-type mass mobilization was certainly more successful at fast heavy industrialization than the Congress Party's Fabianism-with-a-million-miles-of-red-tape. If Red India breaks away from Britain in the 1940s, it might well be putting people in orbit by the 80s, albiet at horrendous human costs...
Bruce