Some kind of war scenario that kills off most of the male population, leaving the women for the victorious Europeans who will then raise the children as Westerners?
Some kind of war scenario that kills off most of the male population, leaving the women for the victorious Europeans who will then raise the children as Westerners?
Civil war, some sort of massive Indian Thirty years war, or something like the South American War of the Triple AllianceThe problem with that is who on Earth would they be fighting who could kill that many? The entire rest of the world?
Some kind of war scenario that kills off most of the male population, leaving the women for the victorious Europeans who will then raise the children as Westerners?
So basically we'd have the new Indian culture comparable to Latin American culture?Even if this wasn't ASB in and of itself, a mother will place some kind of cultural influence on their children, creating a hybrid Indian/Western culture rather than a Western culture.
You could convert the entire subcontinent to Shakerism via a massive prostelization effort and wait 40 some odd years for the now celebate populace to die off. There. Problem solved humanely. Now you just need to find 100k or so militant Shaker fanatics willing to travel to exotic locales...![]()
So basically we'd have the new Indian culture comparable to Latin American culture?
Here's another thought. Maybe somehow we could severely stunt Indian technological growth to a point where the Europeans could roll in with the relative ease that they had with the Americas and Australia. (Note, I said relative ease.) However, there would be no way of stopping India's neighbors from doing the same.
How about just limiting this India to some of the coastal posts? The OP never said all of India![]()
That's exactly what I thought too, a country on the Indus River. Destroying India or keeping it from developing would cause major butterflies that mess up Europe as well, and East Asia would dominate India, if not the world.Damn, some of you beat me to it. My idea upon reading this thread was:
Even if this wasn't ASB in and of itself, a mother will place some kind of cultural influence on their children, creating a hybrid Indian/Western culture rather than a Western culture.
Of course, who would be doing this?
For some reason, I'm thinking of a Europe united by revolutionary France trying to extend a "civilizing mission" into India. The French had colonies in India that were wiped out by the British in OTL, so they'd need to do better there first.
Massive Indian versions of the Vendee leading to the obliteration of the ruling cultural elite and the deaths of much of the male population?
(I'm thinking Napier's policy toward suttee on a colossal scale with a much more organized Indian resistance--that gets crushed.)
And given how the French Revolution went into some very dark places in the name of "Reason," allowing polygamy by the European ruling class could be judged a reasonable means of assimilating India...
Why would it get crushed? You couldn't have mass European armies in India because huge numbers would die from the climate (remember the British armies in India were always majority Indian). The European revolutionaries would have to raise their own Indian Revolutionary Corps or something of the sort and if they're doing that it's going to be hard to exterminate the Indians on their side because you now have armed, disciplined Indians, trained to European standards fighting on their home ground.
Good point. Tropical countries = die white man, for a long time.
The Indian Revolutionary Corps could be culturally Westernized, with sessions on the Rights of Man in between lessons on advancing under fire.
Or, if straight introduction of Western liberal ideas, how about the use of Sikhism as an Indian version of the Cult of Reason? Sikihism is anti-caste, frex.