LPoDAHC: British Mass Murder

1. Stronger British Empire coming out of WWII, butterflies whisk away Ghandi and his entire movement... strong communist rebellion in India... 3 sided fight between BE and communist and Muslims. But would be a squeeze, being harshest as you can while counting to USA, you can still get maybe 3-5 million total deaths in Vietnam.

2. Early 20th century, Brittan setting up their own version of "Congo Free State" somewhere in Africa.
 
Just an idea, but nobody could have foretold the 11-17 million the Germans deliberately killed, in say, 1914. So, I suppose you could set up the same conditions in Britain as were in Germany (though that's very difficult). Gas, and other chemical weapons as well as losing the war are probably the best bet to get some where for hatred to breed.

After that all you need is a scapegoat.
 
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Given that we are looking at Britain committing this atrocity in India, any POD has to be pre-partition. I agree with an earlier poster who suggested that if Britain comes out of WWII in better shape, they might stay in India longer, and thus have more time to put all of this into motion.

With that said, I really don't see how the POD can be postponed beyond about 1945 or so. If we are talking about engineering a famine (my suggestion), late-1946/early-1947 is about as late as you can get, as it is here that the outlines of the British departure begin to take definite shape. Much later, they (the Brits) simply don't have enough influence to do the kind of damage that we have been discussing. If you want to REALLY stretch things, the release of the so-called June 3 plan (June 3, 1947) would be about as late as you can get, but I suspect that the Cabinet Mission to India (late March/early April 1946) is a more realistic target date.
 
If Britain decided to back a One India plan (this surely requires no WWII where the Muslim Indias signed up in much greater numbers than the Hindu ones), then the Muslim group could start violent protests, possibly even terrorist acts. This makes Gandhi's non-violent, secular One India idea look even better in contrast, so the Muslims feel more marginalized, etc. Perhaps even, only certain ethnic groups, say Pashtuns, are particularly responsible for the violence.

End result is a civil war, and all Pashtuns are pushed into Afghanistan (partly forced out, partly fleeing). As Afghanistan can't really support the massively added population, and as it's an unstable mess, anyway, 10 million die, very few actually murdered.
 
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