What pod would be needed then for the national movement to become monarchist? 1857?
A pre-1857 POD would most likely butterfly away Congress as we know it. Very, very few of OTL’s independence movements in the Far East were monarchical in nature because the native royal houses were delegitimised on account of their cooperation with the colonial powers.
And interesting considering they never did quite manage that
Uhm, for all intents and purposes they did.