The Union Forever: A TL
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As of 1954 Eastern Bengal, Punjab, and Sindh are still nominally under British control. Western Bengal is slipping fast to the Rebels. This is a war largely without front lines so the situation is very fluid. Rebels will pop up and "liberate a town or city" only to disappear when British or Loyalist forces return to secure it. The Rajput princes are split with some backing the Dominion and others the Rebels.
Any help with the map would be great!
If anybody can find a map of British India on QBAM that would really help in drawing the borders for these new nations.
The Stan is going great, no complaints.
I will look through the Qbam thread to see if there is one.
Edit: Here you go
https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/attachment.php?attachmentid=181017&stc=1&d=1342980073
Edit: Here you go
https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/attachment.php?attachmentid=181017&stc=1&d=1342980073
Also, there are some good ones on the Wiki.
http://wiki.alternatehistory.com/doku.php/resources/qazaq_s_old_world
http://wiki.alternatehistory.com/doku.php/resources/qazaq_s_old_world
How did Mysore suddenly gain a coastline? Since that area was within the Madras Presidency, and includes some of India's biggest ports (at least historically), I should think Madras would keep it. Also, Tibetan Aksai Chin? To my recollection they never even claimed that, let alone held it. It should probably belong either to Kashmir (the option I support, both because China is fractured and won't be able to make as strong a claim to it) or to Xinjiang/East Turkestan.
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Valid points, although not mentioned it was my intent to give Mysore a coastline as a deal sweetener to remain close to the British, but if it as you say with important ports it could be kept as part of Madras. Good call on Aksai Chin I hadn't thought about that. Lets give it to Kashmir.
Anyone else want to weigh in on the map?
Yeah...over time, you will see trouble in those areas, because they are filled with people from Mysore, and south of there, the Malayalam people. In short, the Madras Presidency will see trouble as its large Telengana, Malayalam and Kannada populations might want to rejoin the neighbouring states.
I also think that a Bengali state should not occur, and instead be included in India.
I would think they'd want to be independent from the Hindu-majority areas.
Um, no. Most of the political establishment here will be either pro-British or anti-British. And most of the intellectuals will not be so focused on religion, as the TL implies Britain never does switch its support from the Princes to the Muslim League (Whether it even exists is another topic.) So British divide and rule policy is still essentially the Princely States vs the Presidencies.
In addition the masses never really did have a voice in the whole process until Gandhi got them involved, and even still, it is still the intellectuals who will be leading any such movement. And in a war with Britain, anti-British sentiment will serve as a uniting force. Sectarian strife will still occur, but nothing like the movement for Pakistan would occur without serious ignorance of butterflies.