Dominion of India

What if the Brits had made India a dominion? Could they? Would it have worked? Other stuff that could have happened?
 
India was a dominion from 1947-1950

Presumably he means the Raj.

I'd say it's possible in the 30s, particularly if the OTL Government of India Act of 1935 (IIRC that's the date) actually went for it an specified that India was to be a Dominion rather than some wishy washy vague statements.
 
You can't really keep a semi-independent India under British influence very long. If we somehow see Dominionship before WW1, after an alt-Statute of Westminster India will start pulling away even sooner than Australia did, maybe even before *WW2. Though without the Indo-Pakistani conflict things will be a lot brighter in the Subcontinent, especially if they can avoid the License Raj.
 
I also feel there's a lot of continued confusion over the term "Dominion." Post-Statute of Westminster (1931), the dominions were independent states - just ones in personal union with the crown.
 
What if the Brits had made India a dominion? Could they? Would it have worked? Other stuff that could have happened?

Perhaps, during the late 19th century, GB could have started treating India as a (semi-)independent empire united w/her in perpetual union of crowns.
 
Was dominion status ever seriously consider for India pre-1920?

The Congress was pushing for it as a reward for Indian participation in the First World War. It was the British government's refusal to grant it which caused the first mass agitations against British rule - and Gandhi's first major campaigns.
 
If they had made India a dominion just after ww1, would India and GB have had closer ties during ww2 and after ww2?
 
If they had made India a dominion just after ww1, would India and GB have had closer ties during ww2 and after ww2?

India's always going to drift away, but this could mean that India has a more Australian view on things. Probably goes republican about when South Africa does in the 50s/60s. However, a more amiable split could see Britain viewed as a sort of well meaning uncle. Not the best of colonial regimes, but left on good terms having made India stronger than it was before.
 
Perhaps if Burma hadn't been captured by the Japanese probably avoiding the Bengal Famine of 1943 there could have been a greater feeling of kinship to Britain that would have meant that a Canada/Australia type relationship could have lasted for longer? I'm sure I've read on here somewhere that that famine turned millions of Indians against Britain so that they wanted independence post war ASAP.
 
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