Communist China and India

I'm just wondering... is it possible to have viable communist regimes in power in China and India at the same time? How could this happen?
 
India is a tricky one, but if the British had managed to hold on to India at least until Mao seized power in neighbouring China in 1949 then it might just have happened. In this scenario, it would be the Indian peasantry rather than the middle classes who form the main opposition to British rule by using violent means. Mao could easily arm fledgling Indian red armies who would attack congressional and British forces which are already having to fight muslim seperatists in North-West India.
Eventually, Britain would abandon India as a lost cause, leading to a possible defeat of the new Indian government by communists shortly after. Communism would seem very appealing indeed to the huge downtrodden population of Indian peasants who feel oppressed by the caste system which the new government has done little to amend.
Even partial communist success could be enough to create a breakaway state in North-East India, owing to the combination of a county which rich cultural diversity and a central government whose power does not penetrate much beyond the urban majority.
 
PRI should probably be modelled on USSR than on Maoist China because

i) India has a lot of different ethnicities and "nationalities" like the USSR

ii) India also has a lot of more moderate, middle-class communists

iii) Psiibility of an Afgan ISSR or a Burmese ISSR, Nepalese ISSR, etc would be awesome.
 
That's all true. But China was also a very diverse and divided country in 1949. Also, geographically, China is in a better position to offer direct support to the Indian movement, and India's vast uneducated peasantry would be far more vunerable then the educated middle classes.
I think a major hurdle, however, would be the strong influence of religeon in India, which was much more potent than in China or Russia before conversion to communism.
 
PRI should probably be modelled on USSR than on Maoist China because

i) India has a lot of different ethnicities and "nationalities" like the USSR
On this point I must disagree that this makes it more likely to follow the USSR than the PRC. China possesses a multitude of different ethnic groups and languages. There are fifty-six "official nationalities", but even that doesn't adequately account for the country's actual ethnic diversity. Most printed PRC currency has up to four or five languages on the note itself. Various estimates place the number of distinct written languages in China at anywhere between fifteen and thirty, and surveys of the total number of indigenous languages spoken in the country have been known to place the number well into the hundreds. In this way, we see that the PRC is possessed of 'at least' as much ethnic diversity as the USSR, if not more, and the assertion that India would more likely to follow the USSR than the PRC for this reason becomes fallacious.
 
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