After the Second World War, when Britain was discussing how to decolonize it's Empire, there was talk of partitioning India along sectarian lines but India became independent in 1947 as a united nation, but what if India went through partition? What PODs might result in such a scenario? What would the impact of partition be on the world?
DBWI: India went through partition
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Britain did not discuss how to decolonize it's Empire.
It was forced to by America, the USSR, the Indian people and it's own financial insolvency.
It's not as though Churchill was trying to go down as the PM that lost India.
FillyofDelphi
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To be honest, I think it'd be better for everybody involved. The massive amount of corruption and regionalism/tribalism that's settled into India, based on New Dehli's dedication to "national territorial integrity and internal stability" over everything else has transformed the central treasury into little more than a piggy bank for the enrichment of whatever region's or ethno-linguistic group's support is needed to retain the painfully complex coalitions that have (barely) managed to govern the country over the years. They rank below most nations in Sub-Saharan Africa... and that's saying something.
On the other hand, India would probably not have become the leader of the "Third Bloc" as a partitioned India would have seen India and this hypothetical Pakistan fight each other in wars and become proxies of the US and USSR.
FillyofDelphi
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Please. The "Third Bloc" is joke and barely more than self-aggrandizement on the part of a handful of nations the US and USSR have agreed to take a hands-off policy towards. Everybody knows both Hyperpowers had a gentleman's agreement not to try any covert operations or major diplomatic overtures in India for fear of the country's fragile domestic situation collapsing under the weight of its own internal contradictions and triggering a civil war so large and messy nobody would want to touch it with a 10 foot poll. Its the same reason Nigeria, Iraq, and the Sudan off the hook... who's cheap, closed petroleum market being among the few reasons what minimal industry India has is capable of surviving, even with wages that would make any of its allies look wealthy. The only reason their GDP is so high is because of their absurd population: Per-Capita, they're on par with Thailand.
And, to be honest, if the partition had been pulled off correctly and the right Princely States allowed to retain their independence, I'm sure some international agreement could be reached. Especially if the US and USSR stepped in to enforce regional stability
It.. Is joke right now. But india has one of fastest growing economy. 'The third bloc' may become reality by 2050.
FillyofDelphi
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It also has the fastest growing debt-to-GDP ratio of any nation on earth, in absolute, public, and private terms. Its easy for an extremely poor per-capita country like India to grow rapidly when its drunk on direct foreign investment and cheap credit. But remember their debt just got downgraded to BB (Next to junk) just last year and they haven't been able to pass meaningful reform since, and already international investors are shifting their focus to better-educated manufacturing regions like Nigeria or Turkey, or the still dirt cheap labor but more financially responsable/less corrupt nations like Vietnam or Kenya. India's bubble is bound to pop within the next decade.
And better we dont speak about the cyclical ethnic "Clashes" that are making a lot of states in India in tribal lands, It´s almost impossible to find a Muslim in some territories of India, like Hyderabad, that historically have a strong Muslim presence and in the north the ruins of Hindu temples
Abound, especially in Cachemira. The only part in India were the ethnic an religious violence it´s not horrible it´s the Punjab, where it´s only appalling
I'm confused about what this "partition" involves. Are we talking about the proposed Muslim state, which I don't think anyone took seriously, or something involving surviving princely states/ and or the provinces just becoming independent, with no all-India institutions?
OOC: It is generally bad practice in DBWIs to contradict a former user like this, and it is why so many DBWIs fail.
And there's all this ridiculous stuff about how Hyderabad (!) has no Muslims. We may as well use this thread to display everything wrong with this genre of threads.
Religion is a large marker of identity in India, even though there is almost no difference between, say, Kashmiri Hindus and Kashmiri Muslims.
Such a weird country includes Sindh, correct? Then it would have a very large Hindu minority, so that would have quite horrific results, maybe as bad as the Indonesian Genocide.
The S in Pakistan stands for Sindh.
I wonder if East Bengal would become a part of Pakistan, as the Muslim League had a lot of support there. East Bengal also has a lot of Hindus as well, maybe even more so than Sindh.
Wait, so its name was an acronym?
That's hilarious?
So, a country with two halves separated by a likely hostile country? Yeah, that would be a stupid idea no one would accept.