DBWI Challenge- Violent collapse of British Empire

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to have the British Empire collapse into civil wars and failed states with a POD of anywhere after 1900. Bonus points for breaking up colonies and dominions, especially India and Canada!

(OOC assuming the Empire peacefully broke up into a number of generally prosperous nation states at some point in the second half of the 20th century)
 

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Have Britain lose WW1 and become threatened by a revolution. (I think we'll need to have Britain losing a great war and have huge problems home for getting the colonies to have a chance to break free, and the same for having the dominions wanting to break free).
 
I'm not sure if you guys are aware of this, but there was actually a proposal to partition India into a Hindu state and a Muslim state. Even if you leave aside the obvious problem that Muslims are a majority on opposite ends of the country, this sort of partition could be a starting point for generations of sectarian warfare.
 
With a violent break up of the Empire, do you think Britain would go more towards Europe? Join the European Community instead of starting the Commonwealth and making that one of the largest economies on the World?
 
Make WW2 a Pyhrric victory. One where despite being one of the victors, the war put to much of a strain on the Empire's economy and the aid of the various colonies during the war spurred them to demand greater autonomy or even out right independence as a reward for their efforts. Considering how close several of the colonies came to this it's not completely out of the question.
 
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