The task is quite obvious. You just need to abolish racism. Clearly direct democracy is not going to work but then such is so rarely employed even in nation states never mind global empires. Susano might say that a globe spanning oligarchy would be deplorable, but I suspect there would be considerable benefits for those within its borders.
The key is to permit the Indian intelligentsia (and African and so on) fluid entry into the ruling oligarchy and its most enjoyable perogatives. True there will always be a few dissenting voices, there are ultimately only so many civil service positions and assorted quangos to go around, but if the most ambitious, adept and vigorous are kept happy then only the less capable and thus less dangerous shall complain. As a result while Indians shall come to rule India, and indeed shall be a prevelent throughout the Empire, there is no particular reason why the Empire would become "Indian" unless we are to view things in narrow racial terms. If a mandarin is educated in British (or British style) universities, if he reads British books, entertains himself with British sports, dresses in the British style, lives in a British styled house and so on then at a certain point it is surely only racial-biologicalism that can say he is somehow an Indian rather than British.
Now ofcourse abolishing racism with a POD in the late 19th century is somewhere between implausible and impossible, but an earlier POD might perhaps suffice.
That's still not the same as keeping millions of people underrepresented though. It certainly wouldn't be seen in the same way by the Indian intelligentsia.
'I ask you, why is the vote of a Birmingham factory worker worth five times the vote of his Indian brother? London calls India the Jewel of the Empire but I remind you, jewels are bound closely by their settings. This is no true Federation of equals, merely a form of lip service to the ideals of democracy and self-government'- Mohandas Gandhi
The key is to permit the Indian intelligentsia (and African and so on) fluid entry into the ruling oligarchy and its most enjoyable perogatives. True there will always be a few dissenting voices, there are ultimately only so many civil service positions and assorted quangos to go around, but if the most ambitious, adept and vigorous are kept happy then only the less capable and thus less dangerous shall complain. As a result while Indians shall come to rule India, and indeed shall be a prevelent throughout the Empire, there is no particular reason why the Empire would become "Indian" unless we are to view things in narrow racial terms. If a mandarin is educated in British (or British style) universities, if he reads British books, entertains himself with British sports, dresses in the British style, lives in a British styled house and so on then at a certain point it is surely only racial-biologicalism that can say he is somehow an Indian rather than British.
Now ofcourse abolishing racism with a POD in the late 19th century is somewhere between implausible and impossible, but an earlier POD might perhaps suffice.