PC: Pakistani insurgency in a united India

Would a Pakistani insurgency similar to the one in Kashmir be likely in a united India

Would India be able to hold on to Pakistan in the event of an insurgency

What foreign Sponsors would a Pakistani insurgency get
 
Depends on why Pakistan stayed.

If it was a peaceful thing,like say before the whole let's divide India thing with the British then you could maybe get an insurgency in Balochistan. Maybe a greater Sikh one?

If it was a violent thing,I don't think India will be exerting control over all of Pakistan and we might see something similar to states like Abkhazia,Somaliland,Palestine,etc. where Pakistan is technically there but not internationally recognized. They'd probably receive backing from countries depending on their ideology so if they're hardcore islamist,then possibly nations like Saudi Arabia. If they're socialist/secularist,possibly nations like Ba'athist Iraq or Egypt. Honestly,it depends on ideology although Afghanistan may never back them due to better relations with India in both OTL and probably in this ATL.
 
Would a Pakistani insurgency similar to the one in Kashmir be likely in a united India

Would India be able to hold on to Pakistan in the event of an insurgency

What foreign Sponsors would a Pakistani insurgency get
Well technically no one really held on to the Hindu Kush region, there might be a staging ground
 
Wait, is the POD before or after the Partition and its population transfer? There were around 11 million people who had to move across the border in 1947 and about a million who died in the violence. In which case the whole thing gets a bit muddled since some parts of Pakistani Punjab pre-Partition were Hindu majority and the like. A Muslim insurgency would be a bit more widespread and, seeing as there's 172 million additional Muslim in India, plus the near 200 million in Pakistan and the 160 million in Bangladesh, about 1/3 of India would be Muslim. After the population transfer, it was far more distinct, but pre-1947 India had quite a few Hindus along the Indus river (Karachi had under half a million people, of whom a bit over half were Hindu).

So a messier affair overall.

China would like a weaker India, especially considering the border disputes and competition over the Himalayan states, the Soviets might like it since no Pakistan means India itself will be concerned at the Soviet intervention in the nearby states that it now shares borders with and that means a nudge over to the US side, yeah.
 
Depends on why Pakistan stayed.
I was thinking something like Britain keeping Pakistan in India to be a better bulwark against communism

They'd probably receive backing from countries depending on their ideology so if they're hardcore islamist,then possibly nations like Saudi Arabia. If they're socialist/secularist,possibly nations like Ba'athist Iraq or Egypt.
Wouldn't Different Factions be more likely or would one group end up destroying or dominating the others

Afghanistan may never back them due to better relations with India in both OTL and probably in this ATL.
Given India holds Pashtun land wouldn't the relationship more closely resemble Pakistan or even be worse as India would be Hindu majority
 
The messiest way to partition would be for a variety of minor principalities to become independent of India. Then India's Northwestern Frontier would be as poorly-administered as OTL Pakistan's border with Afghanistan. Pakistan's southern provinces would definitely be Muslim. Without a strong army, Bengalis in East Pakistan would be able to partition earlier.
Sikhs would probably say "to blank with this foolishness" and establish a semi-autonomous state similar to Kurdistan.
 
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