WI: India remains in the British Empire

Outside of ASBs, what would have to occur to keep the Indian Sub-Continent within a British Empire which exists until today? A British India remaining until today, what would be the consequences of that? Would India become the dominant cultural influence within the greater British Commonwealth/Empire?

Just curious on what people would come up with.
 
Best what can happen is that India gains dominion status and held that to 21st century. But even keeping with dominion might be quiet difficult. Independence movement was just going stronger and stronger.
 
Outside of ASB it is not going to happen. The only way it might happen is if the British decide to largely exterminate the local inhabitants. Another (ASB) option to keep Britain and India united might be for India to become part of the UK in the same way that Scotland is but then effectively the UK part of the British Isles become an Indian province (given their relative populations).
 
Avoid the world wars, British Empire develops nuclear weapons, Britain one way or another becomes a fascist dictatorship willing to annihilate cities. Virtually any other scenario sees India usurp the Empire, or far more likely just leave it.
 
Outside of ASB it is not going to happen. The only way it might happen is if the British decide to largely exterminate the local inhabitants. Another (ASB) option to keep Britain and India united might be for India to become part of the UK in the same way that Scotland is but then effectively the UK part of the British Isles become an Indian province (given their relative populations).

ASB it is.
Even having "India" in its pre-independence definition as a Dominion or Dominions is hard enough.
That includes India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and (I think) Sri Lanka.
Various configurations of independent countries, from a single federal state to multiple fragmented states (Punjab, Hyderabad, Kerala, a Tamil state, etc.) are possibilities.
But any of these various outcomes have independence for however bits emerge from the chaos as a given.

An outlier would be a small part remaining as either a dominion, or an dependency - equivalent to Goa for Portugal.
In a ATL where Singapore, Malta, Gibraltar, Socotra etc. are retained in the French model, i.e. legally as part of the U.K. with full citizen rights, voting rights, and members of parliament, then possibly Ceylon/Sri Lanka?
Would need a big change from OTL though - much better performance in world wars or they don't happen at all, not in hock to the USA, very fast footwork diplomatically and far sighted planning with and for colonies. Pretty much ASB, but not quite.
 
Outside of ASBs, what would have to occur to keep the Indian Sub-Continent within a British Empire which exists until today?

I would recommend you to read Rule Britannia by Anaxagoras. This would give you a good idea on how India remains in the British Empire until the present day.
 
Outside of enormous changes and foresight, the best possible would be full Dominion status in the 30s with an Indian PM. And even then all you're likely to achieve is India 'being in the Empire' in the sense that Queen Elizabeth is its Empress, but otherwise it would be like New Zealand or Canada or Fiji. Functionally completely independent.
 
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