WI - Tibet had access to the Bay of Bengal

What if the Tibet always direct access to the Bay of Bengal by controlling much of OTL Northeast India, Bangladesh and parts of western Burma (e.g. Kachin, Sagaing, Chin and Rakhine, etc) from the Tibetan Empire up to the present (during both periods of independence / autonomy or foreign occupation) and what would the consequences be?
 

Skallagrim

Banned
Not if the POD was early enough.

The majority of the population would almost certainly still accumulate in the coastal lowlands, which would spawn a culture vastly different from the original Tibetan one, and Tibet itself would be the unimportant hinterland. A very interesting idea to be sure, but it wouldn't be a Tibetan state we'd be looking at...
 
Well, assuming it's majority ethnic Tibetan, they probably end up diverging so much from their montane brothers as to be a seperate ethnicity altogether.
 
It's grasping at straws, but a power controlling the Tibetan plateau but unable to conquer lowlands might be able to stretch down the Patkai mountains of what is OTL's India/Myanmar border.

Of course, that region also OTL has a higher population than Tibet, especially if we include the fertile valleys (which we should).
 

Vuru

Banned
Maybe in Seapole where Bengal doesn't exist and Tibet can support more people, but IRL?

Difficult unless they go full Sparta tier
 
While Tibet conquering all of Bengal seems to be a tall order, would Tibet be able to gain access to the Bay of Bengal instead via Northeast India and Western Burma (e.g. Kachin, Sagaing, Chin and Rakhine, etc) as well as part of the Chittagong Division of Bangladesh (via Mizoram in India as well as the Chin and Rakhine states of Burma)?
 
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