Spanish India

Considering that the Spanish created the casta system in New Spain, and there was a preexisting system in the Indian subcontinent, how would a Spanish domination of India play out? Any ideas how it could happen in the first place?
 

Thande

Donor
I think it would look more like what the Portuguese did in India than to what the Spanish did in America.

That sort of thing, with Spanish resources behind it, will get ugly.

Especially if they are in India but not America, so all that conquistador-ness goes east instead...
 
Any ideas how it could happen in the first place?

No Portuguese independence in 1640 or, if you want an earlier Spanish presence in India, Miguel da Paz survives and unites the crowns of Portugal, Castille and Aragon.
 
I think it would look more like what the Portuguese did in India than to what the Spanish did in America.

The Portuguese pretty much attempted to do in India what the Spanish did in the Americas. It didn't work out quite as well because we weren't keeling over from the smallpox and we had frickin' war elephants :D
 

Rockingham

Banned
Wasn't the Mughal Empire still a surviving and mighty force at this point?

Me thinks it would also mean it would take a lot longer for the other European states to break the Spanish Hegemony, unlike OTL when they only had to face Portugal to open the trade route.
Spanish colininization of SEA is plausible though....
 
Were war elephants really useful in wars against the Europeans?

I was just joking with the war elephants. By that time even Indian armies didn't really use them for combat- they functioned more as draft animals and, suitably caparisoned, as staff cars.
 
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