Indian Successor States?

If British India was to fragment, what would her successor states be?

In OTL we had the British overseeing the partition between India and Pakistan, but suppose the British wanted to maintain unity for longer, failed to do so and later India degenerated into all-out civil war.
 
I don't see that there would be total fragmention of India. But there could be Assam (Assam and some its neighbour states), Bengal (Bangladesh and Western Bengal), Dravida (Southern India), Pakistan and Kashmir. But rest of former British India would remain together. Hard to see it being dissolve much more.
 
I don't see that there would be total fragmention of India. But there could be Assam (Assam and some its neighbour states), Bengal (Bangladesh and Western Bengal), Dravida (Southern India), Pakistan and Kashmir. But rest of former British India would remain together. Hard to see it being dissolve much more.

I'm not an expert on India, but I don't think it's ASB to think a country of more than one-billion couldn't split into 20 or more states.
 
I don't see that there would be total fragmention of India. But there could be Assam (Assam and some its neighbour states), Bengal (Bangladesh and Western Bengal), Dravida (Southern India), Pakistan and Kashmir. But rest of former British India would remain together. Hard to see it being dissolve much more.

There's been a sikh sovereignty movement for some time so you might seen an independent Khalistan (punjab).
 
Aside from the mentioned Khalistan and Kashmir, the obvious candidates could be the princely states that proved to be more difficult to integrate in the first place: Travancore, Bhopal, Jodhpur, Junagadh and Hyderabad. Possibly also Nagaland, which had a strong separatist movement, or some other tribal area.
 
There's been a sikh sovereignty movement for some time so you might seen an independent Khalistan (punjab).

The whole reason that Sikhs are a majority anywhere is because of Partition. So without Partition, Sikhs remain a minority group.


Aside from the mentioned Khalistan and Kashmir, the obvious candidates could be the princely states that proved to be more difficult to integrate in the first place: Travancore, Bhopal, Jodhpur, Junagadh and Hyderabad. Possibly also Nagaland, which had a strong separatist movement, or some other tribal area.

This seems pretty likely. Hyderabad was independent for a year until India invaded it and the King of Kashmir wanted independence until Pakistan invaded it and he acceded to India, leading to the modern mess in Kashmir. In addition, if what remains of India is unstable, we may see a civil war culminating in two governments claiming to be India.
 
If India collapses with no 'legitimate' major successor I can see large Princely States holding out simply because there is no one to rob them of their previous legitimacy.

Although only hinted at in the Epilogue and discussion thread, EdT's A Greater Britain TL has a united but confederal Indian Dominion form in 1940 and later collapse in Yugoslavian style civil war in the 1950s. The main successor is a fascistic Hindu nationalist state called Bharatavarsha around Dehli. Other states include a secular Bengali republic, Baluchistan, and Princely States like Kashmir and Hyderabad around Bharat's periphery loosely united in a NATO cum EU alliance simply to deter the Delhi regime.
 

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If British India was to fragment, what would her successor states be?

In OTL we had the British overseeing the partition between India and Pakistan, but suppose the British wanted to maintain unity for longer, failed to do so and later India degenerated into all-out civil war.

There were many

Khalat
Hyderabad
junagadh
khalistan ...not sure if there was a strong nationslist Sikh movement then
Bahawalpur
Sikkim
Kashmir
Bhopal

and many smaller ones , the british control over Punjab Bengal UP Bihar CP madras Bombay was so strong and the buearacrcy interests was so united that unlikely they would form separate states there was no separatist tendencies there.
There would be hindu muslim Sikh riots but no organized civil war there was just not enough ways to sustain it ( lack of arms , lack of irregular paramilitaries)
 
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