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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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