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a while ago i decided to look into how India could become independent. the gist of it was that the Sepoy Mutiny ends up coinciding with the Crimean War and the British are eventually forced to concede victory to the Indians due to the war's unpopularity back home (similar to the ARW)

anyway, an idea occurred to me recently: what if the British managed to retain at least part of India for a time? let's say they hold onto the area of the modern states which are, at least in part, located within Bengal and the areas east of there (OTL Bangladesh and Myanmar) as well as Sri Lanka

does this sound at all plausible with the current scenario, or would it require a change of events ITTL? and in any case, what does everyone think would be the repercussion of this?
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