Hindu-Germany Conspiracy - could anything have come of it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu–German_Conspiracy

This was a plan made by Germany to support and incite an Indian rebellion against the British during WWI. They planned on lighting the fuse for a series of mutinies from India to Singapore that would severely weaken the British Empire. The plan had support from various Indian nationalist groups, the Irish independence groups and Indian independence groups in America and Germany.

I gather that the plan failed, having skimmed over the wiki article - could anything more have come of this?
 

Cook

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Probably nothing more than Japan’s efforts at inciting an uprising in India did and Germany’s own efforts to support rebellion in Iraq did. Germany lacked the capacity to provide anything more than moral support and propaganda incitement.
 
Probably nothing more than Japan’s efforts at inciting an uprising in India did and Germany’s own efforts to support rebellion in Iraq did. Germany lacked the capacity to provide anything more than moral support and propaganda incitement.
Might also pull Japan into the war more.
 
Probably nothing more than Japan’s efforts at inciting an uprising in India did and Germany’s own efforts to support rebellion in Iraq did. Germany lacked the capacity to provide anything more than moral support and propaganda incitement.

They'd been trying to pump weaponry into India since 1911. I think open rebellion in India could have had a major effect on the war.
 

Typo

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Doubt it, the Germans were utterly unprepared for colonial games, and utterly incompetent at it compared to the British who have being doing it for 300 years
 

Cook

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I used Germany’s efforts to do the same thing in the Second World War to highlight Germany’s major shortcoming outside Europe in both world wars; they did not have the capacity to break the Royal Navy’s stranglehold on maritime traffic.

In the First World War the campaigns in the German colonies all happened in isolation with no aid from the fatherland.

Any conspiracy to arm large numbers of Indians against the British would have run into several large problems; a very effective governing body and loyal Indian Army and the private armies of the Indian Princes, all of whom stood to lose if the balance of power changed on the subcontinent. And of course there is the Royal Navy again, the second the conspiracy comes to light there is not going to be any further assistance from Germany beyond moral support.

In the Second World War the Japanese tried to incite a rebellion in India when they controlled Burma, were at the gates of India and perceived by many to be unstoppable; they failed. What chance would there be that a European power half a world away could inspire more confidence?
 
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