How could you get a French India by the time the American Revolution rolls around and what would be the effects?
An Algerian friend of mine claimed that Algeria to France was what India was to the Brits!
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.
Wishful thinking by the French.
They WANTED Algeria to be that. It seemingly never worked.
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.
I just want to sample the FOOD ITTL!![]()
Curried snails?
Best Regards
Grey Wolf
I liked Cliveless World.