No Partition of India

A United India including the OTL India, Pakistan and Bangladesh would be the most populous country with a population of around 1550 millions, well ahead of China. Addition of Burma would not make much difference in total population.
If India had become independent united, Punjab and Bengal would have remained united at least in the beginning. There would have been no division on the basis of religion. Later divisions for administrative convenience could not be ruled out.
If parts of the North East India were included in Burma when Burma was separated the local people might have accepted it. Areas under the present states of Nagaland and Mizoram and Chittagong in Bangladesh could have been included. But states of Assam, Tripura, Manipur etc. are culturally more similar to India than Burma. Hence they should have been included in India as in OTL.
The last areas also have a fair many Christians and are economically seperated from India due to issues of getting roads through Bangladesh. I can see the Chinese not dropping their claims to the Kachin areas or those to Burma and Sikkim. Heck, in college I borrowed two books made during the Cold War by the Chinese and soviet Governments. The Chinese map went all the way to Lake Bakail and claimed that the Mongol hoards invading Europe should have been counted as Chinese. Anyways, China is definitely going to be a major antagonist as they duke it out for influence in greater Indochina. the outcome might depends on whether India keeps any of their nobility, liquidate them, dispossess them, or put their old rights and privileges into contracts which allow them a fair-sized portion of their old incomes without requiring expenditures for public order.
 
the outcome might depends on whether India keeps any of their nobility, liquidate them, dispossess them, or put their old rights and privileges into contracts which allow them a fair-sized portion of their old incomes without requiring expenditures for public order.
I'm not sure what you mean about the nobles - could you clarify? Would the Seven Sisters still be Christian if they were Burmese?

and thanks Kishan, that was what I was asking about.
 
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