WI mutiny in India wins

Mrstrategy

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What if the mutiny in India was able to win against the British and company troops?can India become a single country?
 
I don't know how plausible victory is but I doubt that there would be unified India. Probably India would become quiet balkanised nation.
 
If the mutiny won, then we might see a fractionalisation of India once more. The British Raj created what we know as Indian Nationalism today, I'd say, without it, we might not've had India.
 
Nope- the Rebellion was carried out by lots of different groups for different reasons. The main force of the mutineers rallied around the idea of reestablishing the Mughal Emperor as overlord of North india but plenty of other regional rulers and groups joined in for their own reasons. Also, in South India the British are going to be relatively unaffected- they will likely have to renegotiate their bargaining positions with states like Mysore and Travancore, however, given defeats in North India.

The Sikhs aligned themselves with the British due to their suspicions about a Mughal resurgence but in a situation where the British are defeated they're still likely to have the best organised forces in the Punjab.

Short answer- there are going to be all sorts of different factions.

Indian national identity as a whole developed as a reaction to British imperial policies in the aftermath of the 1857 Rebellion.
 
What Flocc said. Along the Indo-Gangetic belt we see a resurgence of a Mughal Empire, one that is by now more like a decentralized HRE rather than the thing it was at the time of Akbar and even Aurangzeb. In the south the British continue to ply their trade, though the rest of the European nations may get a bit of a leg up and try to exploit the newly open markets of the North while in the South British authority over Travancore might fade, giving the state a moment to breath and an opportunity to modernise should the BEIC come knocking again.

But what is important here is the message it sends; European power can be shattered. Sure it took nearly a full myriad of Indian states as well as an uprising within the ranks of the British themselves, but a precedent is set. The British will try and rectify this as soon as possible since the empire cannot lose its largest cash cow, who would the British empire have an eternal sun above it other wise?
 

Anaxagoras

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If the British assault on Delhi in September of 1857 had failed (and it very nearly did), their ability to restore the situation would have collapsed. All British soldiers and civilians would have had to get out while the getting was good. However, the British would not have lost Calcutta or their position in the south, while the rebels in the north would have quickly fallen to squabbling among themselves.
 
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