Impact of an independent Dravidia

Let's say that a "Dravidian nationalist" movement akin to the All-India Muslim League was strong enough for support for an independent Dravidia to reach the same "critical mass" that support for Pakistan did IOTL so, on August 15, 1947, India achieves independence as three states: Bharat, Pakistan, and Dravidia. Now, what would the impact of Dravidian independence from India be? How would Bharat and Dravidia develop? What would the politics of these two countries be? What would Dravidia's relations with Pakistan and India (and possibly Bengal/Bangladesh) be? What becomes of Hyderabad in such a scenario as its last Nizam wanted Hyderabad to become independent? Would it have become independent, part of India, part of Dravidia, or divided between the two?
 
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I don't think this would count as there being a Rump!India. In fact, I think India would be an accepted name for all the subcontinent, with Bharat being used in the north. It was the South Indians who pushed so much for the country being called India and for English to be one of the national languages. Anyways, I think this place will be a bit of a federation or Confederation. English would be a national language, and most states would have extra ones of their own. I imagine Pakistan might manage to snag Lakshadweep here, assuming the Dravidians don't snag it quickly like the Indians did. Might end up the Bharatians push Hindu nationalism even further, though greater Assam might survive with cultural identities intact, if only due to isolation from the rest of the country.
 
Anyways, what would the foreign policy of both Bharat and Dravidia be?
Bharat will probably still have clashes with Pakistan and China. Dravidian may be more neutral and both would be members of the Non Aligned League. Both would have centrally planned economies post war. How long they last before liberalization may vary.
 
Considering the present state of development and economy in "Bharat" and "Dravidia", Dravidia will be far advanced and well off than Bharat. The North and East of India lags the South and the West in development. Not only in economic terms, but in social and cultural fields also the South has developed more than the North. But the fact is that the Dravidian movement had no support outside the Tamil areas at the time of Independence. Even today a 'Dravidian' identity or ideology does not exist outside certain pockets in Tamilnadu. For the people of Kerala, Karnataka, Telengana and Andhra, "Dravidian" is only a word to denote the classification of their mother tongue.
 
What about the fate of Hyderabad as its ethnically-mixed between Marathis and Telugus and its last Nizam sought independence for Hyderabad?
 
The kingdom of Hyderabad would have no choice but to join India. The Government of India tried to negotiate with Nizam for a peaceful union. But it was the stubborn stand of Nizam that forced the Government of India to send the military to annex the kingdom. The Kingdom of Hyderabad was surrounded on all sides by Indian territory and could not defend a military action by India. Further 90% of the people wanted the ouster of Nizam and union with India.
 
In a scenario where India is divided between Bharat and Dravidia, and where Hyderabad is on the border between the two, much becomes possible.
 
The Kingdom of Hyderabad had Marathis, Kannadigas and Telugus in their population. If the choice was between Bharat and Dravidia, then Marathis would have opted for Bharat, and the Kannadigas and Telugus would have chosen Dravidia. The city of Hyderabad was inside the Telugu area which became Andhra Pradesh under state reorganisation, hence
would be a part of Dravidia. When Andhra Pradesh was divided into Telengana and Andhra in 2014, Hyderabad fell in the Telengana region and was awarded to Telengana State to make it their capital. Andhra Pradesh was asked to build a new capital and they are planning to build a new city to be named Amaravati.
 
At the time of partition, the native princely states were not given the choice of independence. They had to join either of the two dominions, India or Pakistan. If there was a three way division with Dravidia as the third party, then also Hyderabad will not have the option of independence. It would have to choose between Bharat and Dravidia. In that case the majority of its people are speaking Dravidian languages and a better choice would be Dravidia. Any problems regarding the integration of the Hyderabad territory will have to be sorted out between Bharat and Dravidia amicably.
 
At the time of partition, the native princely states were not given the choice of independence. They had to join either of the two dominions, India or Pakistan. If there was a three way division with Dravidia as the third party, then also Hyderabad will not have the option of independence. It would have to choose between Bharat and Dravidia. In that case the majority of its people are speaking Dravidian languages and a better choice would be Dravidia. Any problems regarding the integration of the Hyderabad territory will have to be sorted out between Bharat and Dravidia amicably.

Much depends on the extent to which this three-way fragmentation of India might lend itself to greater fragmentation. If we are dividing British India on religious lines, and on language lines, why not also dynastic lines? Hyderabad and Kashmir might well exit the process as still independent states.
 
The Indian National Congress was demanding a unified India. It was only the stubborn stand of the Muslim League and the support it received in the elections that made the Congress to accept the partition. The Congress insisted on a strong Central Government and that's why the proposal for a Federal form with three groups of provinces in the East, the West and the Middle, with a weak Center was rejected. The Congress preferred partition over a unified country with a weak Central Government. The demand for a Dravidanadu had no support outside the Tamil areas and even there the support was limited. It was not that there were no other demands for other states, but none had any popular support. The Congress was the only organisation that had popular support in all parts of the country. As far as the native princes were concerned the Congress was ready for talks, but were not ready to accept any of their unreasonable demands.
 
Bharat will probably still have clashes with Pakistan and China. Dravidian may be more neutral and both would be members of the Non Aligned League. Both would have centrally planned economies post war. How long they last before liberalization may vary.
I just thought of something. I read on the wiki recently that during the partition Bengal was forbidden/not-given-the-option to go for independence. What do you guys think would happen if that was attempted? Would there still be a partition between the areas? I can see the vote maybe being split between Pakistan and Bengal, Perhaps with a threeway tie if West Bengal is still in the voting unit. So long as the borders are clear enough, and both Bharat and Bengal treat Hindus and Muslims in the borders reasonably well (maybe through use of many before vote agreements between parties, and making it clear that no one has to move no matter the results) then perhaps relations will be amiable. Though considering how badly things went in Kashmir, and how Over the years India invaded basically ever single disputed area, using reasons that contradicted each other (listening to the Hindu population instead of the Muslim ruler in one place, versus the Hindu ruler and Muslim, Sikh, and Buddhist majority in another).

By the way, how you guys think relations between Dravidia and all the other countries would be? So long as Christians (who had been in the area for over eighteen hundred years) and Muslims got to continue to live life as always I can see the Europeans being happy with them, and for good relations with the Phillipines in the future, perhaps also with Malaysia and Indonesia. I know a lot of Muslims came from over there to Indonesia, but I wonder which area the Hindus of Bali came from. Depending on the borders (as we are probably having Bharat trying to take the north of the Presidencies of Bombay and Madras) France and Portugal will border both Dravidia and Bharat so long as the Portuguese treat the people of Gao fine, perhaps also helping industrialize, they might be left alone. France might give up their specks without too much trouble after Indochina is lost, though with compensation paid for French property, as well as treaties for economic openess. De Gaulle and others might like the idea of Madras coming to be closer to Paris than London once more, though is likely to be a pipe dream. The Maldives are far off enough to not worry about, but the Lakdashweep islands are nearby and might be desired by Pakistan, who tried seizing them IOTL but got beat to the punch. Sri Lanka... well, hopefully things go well between the Sinhalese and Tamil. Mysore will be surrounded by the Dravidians and should probably play ball, while the ruler of Hyderabad might try to spin things off to keep himself in charge, since he would have two countries bordering him rather than one. Would be a tad difficult for him though. And lead to some tension on which Indian state gets the land.
 
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