Alex Richards
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So, what steps need to be taken to avoid the Partition of India and Pakistan with a PoD of Jan 1917?
Preventing the partition
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Just stalling (or do something to accelerate the stomach cancer) so that Muhammed Ali Jinnah is not a party to the negotiations. The two-state solution was pretty much his baby - with Mountbatten setting Pakistan up to fail so that it could be reabsorbed later, but that's almost a separate issue.
I suppose you could send someone better than Mountbatten to negotiate on Britain's behalf, but I fear that's likely to lead to more than two states - he got around the objections of a lot of remaining princely states by simply ignoring their legal rights.
I suppose you could send someone better than Mountbatten to negotiate on Britain's behalf, but I fear that's likely to lead to more than two states - he got around the objections of a lot of remaining princely states by simply ignoring their legal rights.
Alex Richards
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Great, that's a big help. I'm planning for a *WWII to occur in the early-mid 40s anyway, so the Lahore Declaration is probably butterflied, and Jinnah dead by the time war is over and independence is considered (considering the symbolic 1958 centenary as the hand over).
How much of a help do you reckon having a muslim army corps of crack troops from across the Raj helping to Guard Mecca in a British leaning Hedjaz would be as a unifying factor?
Markus
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That has also caught my attention but my POD would be as late 1942:
https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=163990
https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=151792
Partition seems to have been avoidable with a 1917 POD.
Alex Richards
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OK. I'm thinking Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Nepal and Bhutan may be part of this india or assossiated states, with Burma and possibly Tibet as closely linked states.