WI/AHC/PC: Opium war spreads to India

During the First Opium War the Chinese weren't really aware that the British in India and the British in Guangzhou were the same.

What if they were aware, and with a much more warlike government, the Qing decided to take the First Opium War west? After all, Nepal actually suggested an anti-British alliance only a few years after, so perhaps Nepal could be encouraged to join. Perhaps even the Sikhs and/or the Burmese. There's even a possibility of an earlier Sepoy mutiny.

What would be the most likely consequences?
 
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During the First Opium War the Chinese weren't really aware that the British in India and the British in Guangzhou were the same.

What if they were aware, and with a much more warlike government, the Qing decided to take the First Opium War west? After all, Nepal would suggested an anti-British alliance only a few years after, so perhaps Nepal could be encouraged to join. Perhaps even the Sikhs and/or the Burmese. There's even a possibility of an earlier Sepoy mutiny.

What would be the most likely consequences?

I think that it's possible for China to get the British to surrender. Their armies might lose in China proper, but as long as the British are distracted in the area where they covet more than China, well, Britain can't do much to them.
 
If the British government steps in and established an earlier British Raj, could we expect the Sikhs to retain their independence?

The British control of the Sikh empire relied on them seizing on opportunity, of the series of circumstances that occurred following Maharaja Ranjit Singh's death. If the British establish the Raj (I assume by deposing the Mughal Emperor?), and the same crisis of succession occurs, they will start the Anglo - Sikh wars as OTL.
If however, a better set of circumstances occurs and a popular ruler of the Khalsa emerges quickly than its likely that the British keep them as a client - state ally that they use for soldiers, similar to Nepal.
 
The British control of the Sikh empire relied on them seizing on opportunity, of the series of circumstances that occurred following Maharaja Ranjit Singh's death. If the British establish the Raj (I assume by deposing the Mughal Emperor?), and the same crisis of succession occurs, they will start the Anglo - Sikh wars as OTL.

Well, I was thinking that the costs of a war with Nepal, Burma, and China on the subcontinent as well as a possible mutiny (after all there was a small mutiny during the First Anglo-Burmese War, and the early 1840s isn't that far from 1857) might make the British tired of another war in India. So even if Maharaja Ranjit Singh dies and everything plays out as in OTL I was thinking the British might be unwilling to go to war against the Sikhs to an OTL scale.
 
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