WI: French India?

Hendryk

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Tony Jones has written a very complete ATL whose POD is the successful suicide of Robert Clive in 1744 (in OTL, he failed to kill himself). Check out Clive-less World and its French India.
 
Tony Jones has written a very complete ATL whose POD is the successful suicide of Robert Clive in 1744 (in OTL, he failed to kill himself). Check out Clive-less World and its French India.

I liked Cliveless World.

Wishful thinking by the French.
They WANTED Algeria to be that. It seemingly never worked.

Maybe because Algeria wasn't as big and rich as India was; and it was a colony of the Kingdom/Republic/Empire instead of starting out as a company colony. What happened in India was the BEIC becoming so rich and powerful it could successfully influence Mughal politics; Algeria sadly, for France, lacked such.
 
I liked Cliveless World.



Maybe because Algeria wasn't as big and rich as India was; and it was a colony of the Kingdom/Republic/Empire instead of starting out as a company colony. What happened in India was the BEIC becoming so rich and powerful it could successfully influence Mughal politics; Algeria sadly, for France, lacked such.

Also, the British never meant to turn India into a settler colony, nor enviones waging a nearly-extermination war to the natives (they had Australia for such things). And India was, for obvious reasons, never seen a part of Metropolitan Britain.
OTOH, France did not only mean to extract wealth from Algeria, but also settle it and turn it being a part of France in the proper sense; and she did so also by expelling Arabs and Berbers from some lands. The wars by which France conquered Algeria were comparatively far bloodier than the British conquest of India.
 
Also, the British never meant to turn India into a settler colony, nor enviones waging a nearly-extermination war to the natives (they had Australia for such things). And India was, for obvious reasons, never seen a part of Metropolitan Britain.
OTOH, France did not only mean to extract wealth from Algeria, but also settle it and turn it being a part of France in the proper sense; and she did so also by expelling Arabs and Berbers from some lands. The wars by which France conquered Algeria were comparatively far bloodier than the British conquest of India.

Which is why the chief difference between the Fourth and Fifth French Republics was that the former decided to hold on to Algeria as a department, while the latter was the offshoot of resignation in the face of decolonization.
 
Hmmm....the language of all the Bollywood films today would be in a mixture of French and the various dialects of the Indian Subcontinent ?
 
Curried snails?

Best Regards
Grey Wolf

Barbarian. :rolleyes:



More likely the appearance of some Indian spices into French cream sauces...just a little bit of Turmeric to add color and a touch of Cardamon for flavor, not quite the flood of flavor you get in Indian cuisine. Flaky levened breads to India and flat breads to France, Saag Ghosht as the base for a sauce...damn...drool shorting the keyboard.

Hmmm...does India have any good potential wine growing regions? How about up in Kashmir?
 
Well, biotech's awesome. And thanks for turning me onto Cliveless World, Hendryk!

Also, Geekhis, stop making me hungry! Now I want some Indo-French food...
 
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