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So, I had an earlier thread that once again went astray from the question I asked, and so in this thread I would ask folks to discuss the means by which the British could have been forced out of India over the space of a decade or three of on-again off-again rebellion and open warfare.

Given that:
1) the USA in the 1960's & 70's could 'loose' the Vietnam war, and that
2) the 1960's USA was far more powerful than the 1860's - 1890's British empire ever was, how long and how bloody would such wars have had too be for the British population to demand an end, like the US population did in OTL? Note that this does not require the British empire to be defeated upon the battlefield any more than the USA was in Vietnam, only that the constant blood letting, with no end in sight, finally makes them pull out.

Any thoughts?
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