japan invades india

I think that would have been improbable in the extreme.

The Indian army formed after the Mutiny was an unusual force, and the esprit de corps it maintained is very little understood nowadays.

The principle races of the army , Sikhs, Gurkhas Moslems and the "classical" Rajputs were not at all people who would have had much time for Mr Gandhi and his theories.

The degree of personal loyalty of the native troops to their commanders , and to the Raj was quite remarkable. My grandfather had some connection with India and even as an old man would still receive communications from those he had commanded decades before. Admittedly that was 50 years before WW 2 , but I do not think the army changed much in that time.

Mr Gandhi, and the Japanese would have recited their treasonous allurements in vain. The honour and loyalty of the Sepoys and Sowars was above such stuff.

Bollocks. The Indian Army might not have had time for Gandhi's satyagraha movement but if you think they didn't want Britain out you've got another think coming. The INA was one expression of this but given different circumstances Bose might well have been able to rally even more support. In hindsight Bose was a fascist patsy but that doesn't have anything to do with the popularity and justice of his essential cause. Things changed a lot in the fifty years before WW2. They weren't "sepoys or sowars" out of some Kiplingesque fantasy world any more.
 
if japan took india the rest of the western block asia like tibet would be easily taken over so that japan could make a two sided war with china
 
Bollocks. The Indian Army might not have had time for Gandhi's satyagraha movement but if you think they didn't want Britain out you've got another think coming. The INA was one expression of this but given different circumstances Bose might well have been able to rally even more support. In hindsight Bose was a fascist patsy but that doesn't have anything to do with the popularity and justice of his essential cause. Things changed a lot in the fifty years before WW2. They weren't "sepoys or sowars" out of some Kiplingesque fantasy world any more.

It's worth keeping in mind the Indian mutinied in 1945 when it looked like Britain was dicking around with independence and charging members of the INA with treason.
 
but with extremist dictatorship in control the idea rebels would have swiftly taken care in times of war
 
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