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Which direction could/would the two take after "Malaya Campaign"-WW2.

For those -no doubt very, very, very few ;) - not familiar with what happened:

On December 8th 1941 an extremely powerful elite force of the Imperial Japanese Army invaded the British colony of Malaya that was defended by a handful of poorly-trained and ill-equipped Indian soldiers but Indians being Indians they prevailed against all odds, stopped the invasion, chased the invaders back all the way to Tokyo and liberated Thailand, Indo-china, China and Korea from the yoke of Japan. In case you wonder why this differs from the official history, this is the version the Congress Party is telling. ;)

So, no mass surrenders, no Bengal famine, no IO raid but victories over victories.
One could argue this accelerates Indian independence on the grounds of “We won the war for you, now pay up!” But more important could it affect the partition of India? If so how? Me, I have not even read the wiki-article on the matter but maybe a few people here know about this sorry episode.


Egarding the DEI, the durch rule was so unpopular the locals greeted the Japanese as liberators but that attitude changed fast. In the ATL Java and Sumatra are never invaded, so the anti-dutch sentiment will survive. Borneo, Celebes and a few smaller islands are taken by the Japanese and soon retaken by the allies. Since the Japanese did not care about the civilan population inside a warzone (see Battle of Manila and the three-all-policy) one would assume that the Dutch are suddenly looking MUCH more acceptable the people of Borneo. But how would they view the people of Java? “Jap loving scum” or just “Bloody fools”? And how would this affect their willingness to live in the same nation?
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