Challenge: Large Anglo-Indian Minority In India

Britain more dominated by greedy aristocrats.

Greater social inequality in Britain.

Britain gets stuck in a demographic trap.

Excess population go to India.

Indians starved by greedy aristocrats.

Nasty food riots and ensuing conflict.
 
Britain more dominated by greedy aristocrats.

Greater social inequality in Britain.

Britain gets stuck in a demographic trap.

Excess population go to India.

Indians starved by greedy aristocrats.

Nasty food riots and ensuing conflict.
Considering that during the Highland clearances Scots went to North America and Australisia you are going to need another factor for them to choose India. Given that Indians are going to be starving it is even less likely that Scots will go there. Darien was a disaster because people lied. During the clearances Scots knew where to go because previous emigrants had sent back letters.
 
Considering the hot tropic climate and the high population density the British would have never found India as an attractive place for emigration. Even during the days of the Empire the number of the British in India was the bare minimum required for the administrative and military purposes of the Empire. Hence a large scale immigration and settlement of the British in India and a resulting large Anglo-Indian minority was always a quite unlikely event.
 
More single British men coming over and fewer families and/or having an Indian mistress/wife be more socially acceptable and you can get a decent number of half-British Indians. Change the administration system so that it's more British heavy to help get numbers up. You could also get more British business in...
 
Make it easier to get into the civil service if you were half british

This was true IOTL but only for the bottom rungs of the ladder. Higher positions went to full blooded whites and later on to educated Indians. Anglo-Indians, to an extent, were looked down on from both sides
 
More single British men coming over and fewer families and/or having an Indian mistress/wife be more socially acceptable and you can get a decent number of half-British Indians. Change the administration system so that it's more British heavy to help get numbers up. You could also get more British business in...

I agree with this. There could be an analogue of Afrikaans in South Africa. A decent number of colonists and administrators come over, and importantly, have few qualms about taking Indian spouses. With the result being a decently sized mixed-race class of native English speakers. Due to favoritism and elite dominance, the proportion of English speakers would likely increase, ending with a sizable minority by independence. Of course, Indian nationalism could then turn around and reverse this.
 
Nope. The population of India is simply too high for Britain to make a mark with the Anglo-Indians, and that's if all of Britain decided to have an Indian Summer.
 
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