DBWI: Unified China, Divided India

Historically, after the Second World War, India achieved independence as a united nation while China was split between the Republic of China in the south and the People's Republic of China in the north, which have both lasted until the present-day, but what if China was a united nation while India was divided? What PODs would be needed for that? How would the Cold War be affected by China being a united nation while India was divided?
 
The movement that led to Dominion status for a federal Indian Empire in OTL would have to be less orientated towards a federation and more ethnic or religious based.

This could lead to simple Hindu/Muslim/Sikh split, or the much more likely partitioning into multiple national/linguistic countries that are mutually hostile.
 
Maybe a different war? China’s partition was largely thanks to it ending up on the Axis side: the pro-Allies Japanese did a lot of the fighting in Southern China and ‘helped defend’ what was then French Indochina prior to it becoming Japanese satellite states. And the Russians were to thank for the PRC, when they moved into the North in 1945. If China hadn’t been on the Axis side, things might have been very different.
 
With the PRC expect Washington to freak out over DOMINO EFFECT AND RED TIDE.
And the thought of the Mao Family ruling over 1.3 billion people is just plain terrifying to me due to the mixture of batshit insanity, communism, and paranoia which defines North China.
 
Maybe a different war? China’s partition was largely thanks to it ending up on the Axis side: the pro-Allies Japanese did a lot of the fighting in Southern China and ‘helped defend’ what was then French Indochina prior to it becoming Japanese satellite states. And the Russians were to thank for the PRC, when they moved into the North in 1945. If China hadn’t been on the Axis side, things might have been very different.
That kept korea and taiwan in japanese territory.
 
Personally, I think this could be done by making manchuria occupiced by kwantung armies which will make japaneese at odds with entente and push it into axis camp
Maybe the kwantung could have put some prince named Puyi as something like king of manchuria(which would make sensible political descision since aisin giaro is manchu and was dynasty that used to rule on chinnese throne, but you would have to turn japan into radical monarchist state which albiet hard. is possible)
As for India, we could like make the radical monarchist support local indian nationalist under the guise of "asian liberation" and if entente won(Somehow feasible if Axis have much worser coordination than IOTL which could happen because japan and the pact of steel is half of the world apart from each other. maybe something like jalaneese overstimate their strenght and literally ask USA to join the war by bombing somd american ships) british would try to sabotage the indian's national identity by pushing for more religious-based movements and played them against each other(As i forsee, the muslim would become majority and gained the prestige of being india while the more hindu deccan would be ended up under the rule of confederation of princes that depended its stability on british support and maybe a bengali buddhist state and panjabi sikh nation)
 
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