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What if the Indian mutiny had succeeded and the British lost India does India split into different States or one country?
What if the Indian mutiny had succeeded and the British lost India does India split into different States or one country?
Why would the British lose all of India if this mutiny succeeds?
As I thought. Then they don't actually have India to lose just the OTL foundation used to gain it later.They only directly controlled small parts of it before the mutiny.
A surviving Sikh Empire could butterfly the mutiny.Take the Sikh Empire for example. Lets say they had a POD of 1840ish.
And not all of those parts mutinied...They only directly controlled small parts of it before the mutiny.
the article above said:The only case of Indian troops revolting in the South was when the 8th Cavalry of the Madras Brigade refused to march from Bangalore to Madras in June 1857 to sail for Calcutta.
the article above said:To protect the British residents of Madras — who at no time seemed to be in any danger...
Why would the British lose all of India if this mutiny succeeds?
In this period Britain generally doesn't say "Oh sod it, let them win then". The main exception is the 1st Transvaal War but that was with white settlers and the British, if I am not misremembering, had other things come up.
So, either they come back soon with a full invasion force, or something else completely distracts them
The latter would rise in probability because losing even more than they did in OTL's start of the Mutiny would damage Britain's standing and perception so elsewhere things might start to go more awry. Plus, Britain might harden their stances elsewhere as a result to show that they still matter meaning that situations elsewhere might deteriorate more rapidly, meaning they cannot return in force as soon as they wanted
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Yes, because the British were uniquely evil amongst all colonialists. /sBecause the world would be a better place![]()
That is not what he said or implied at all.Yes, because the British were uniquely evil amongst all colonialists. /s
It's fairly clearly said that the world is in a better place if the British didn't have India.That is not what he said or implied at all.
Yes, that was exactly what they said, how you immediately went on the defensive "Britain was uniquely evil" was the issue, did KMP remotely imply some other colonial power conquering India would be a better place? If anything he was saying colonialism as a whole as bad, and that is a cold take.It's fairly clearly said that the world is in a better place if the British didn't have India.
Ah, the old shift what was being said response.Yes, that was exactly what they said, how you immediately went on the defensive "Britain was uniquely evil" was the issue, did KMP remotely imply some other colonial power conquering India would be a better place? If anything he was saying colonialism as a whole as bad, and that is a cold take.
Or wait, you are saying the Raj was a positive for India and Indians?
Because the conversation wasAh, the old shift what was being said response.
How is my saying the British weren't uniquely evil (as global colonisers) the same as saying the Raj was a positive force or that colonialism wasn't bad?
If they'd said "that one place escaping colonization at all would be a positive to the world" I could see their point but when it's more "that one place escaping British colonization would be a positive to the world" I don't.Because the conversation was
You: "Why would the British lose all of India if this mutiny succeeds?"
Him: "Because the world would be a better place"
You: "Yes, because the British were uniquely evil amongst all colonialists. /s"
So, his point was the the world would be a better place without British colonialism in India, in no other form he even implied anyone else colonizing the place would be better, only that one place escaping colonization at all would be a positive to the world (again cold take under current historical debate), you for some reason went on the "BUT THE BRITS WERENT THE WROST" in the form of sarcasm, so there is the question: if you weren't jumping on the defense of the Empire's honor out of nowhere, what was the point of the post?