Pakistan with buddhist, hinduism or jainism majority?

Would it be possible to have a country in today's Pakistan where not Islam but one of the named religions is the dominant religion?
 
Yes basically any TL where Islam is butterflies away will result in central Asia incl. Pakistan staying Buddhist.

Alternatively if you can get Buddhist Turks then the region might well go Buddhist again.
 
If Hindu, there'd be no Pakistan but instead a significantly bigger India.

I don't know about Jainism, though. It seems like a pretty tough neighborhood for a profoundly pacifist nation to survive.
 
Yes basically any TL where Islam is butterflies away will result in central Asia incl. Pakistan staying Buddhist.

Alternatively if you can get Buddhist Turks then the region might well go Buddhist again.

Migrating Turks tend to be flexible with religion. I don't know what religion they followed in Pakistan before the conquest but if it is anything other than Buddhist I'd expect them to go to the majority religion.
 

Srihari14

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Would it be possible to have a country in today's Pakistan where not Islam but one of the named religions is the dominant religion?
Pakistan was created because it was Islamic, if it Hindu, Buddhist or Jain, it would simply stick with India
 
Pakistan was created because it was Islamic, if it Hindu, Buddhist or Jain, it would simply stick with India

I could see a distinctive Buddhist identity emerging in NW *India if there's a common Buddhist Central Asian identity that becomes prominent in the region.
 

Srihari14

Banned
I could see a distinctive Buddhist identity emerging in NW *India if there's a common Buddhist Central Asian identity that becomes prominent in the region.
Still it would make no sense to break up with India, as most of Buddhist holy sites are in India and they will not dear domination from Hindus, as both religion are very similar in its core
 
Honestly if someone makes a tl about a state whose majority follows jain dharm link that shit (prolly not happening but hey)
Lots of very interesting possibilities in there
 
Still it would make no sense to break up with India, as most of Buddhist holy sites are in India and they will not dear domination from Hindus, as both religion are very similar in its core

I doubt it...if it was Theravada I might see it happening but the Mahayana from Central Asia tended to have pretty distinctive beliefs...

Edit: this also presupposes that the region would ever be unified in its entirety which removing Islam might butterfly (A France less concerned with Barbary Corsairs b/c no Islam is a France that can devote more resources to fighting Britain, leading possibly to a French colonization of India much less omnipresent than the British, for example)...

Either way the region of OTL Pakistan would be Buddhist
 
Why is everyone assuming that some British Raj-like state will ever form? It is similar to assuming that Europe will obviously eventually unite under Rome and in fact, it is far more likely in any tl for this to occur in Europe than in Hindustan.
 
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