british india

Princess Victoria dies an infant then during the reform riots things get worse with King William assassinated causing Ernest to gain the throne and his unpopularity spuring on the British Revolution

I understand that a commonly discussed topic here is the failure of the American Revolution. Usually, the discussion centers around North America and Europe. However, I feel like India is overlooked as a source of potential butterfly effects from a failed American Revolution considering the...

Despite ending with a peace treaty that permanently crippled Burma's economy (and thus its ability to defend itself), the First Anglo-Burmese War was an extremely expensive undertaking for the British as well, driving the EIC to the brink of bankruptcy. So, was there any way British finances...

Following the death of its founder, Ranjit Singh, in 1839, the Sikh Empire went through a period of turmoil, with four Maharajas in just ten years and several assassinations. Thanks to this weakness, the British managed to fully subjugate it - with some difficulty, in spite of the Sikhs...

IOTL the Sepoy Mutiny was a huge but ultimately disorganized revolt that, lacking a clear leader or even a common goal, was eventually defeated in detail after the British retook Delhi in September 1857. Suppose that the rebels get a few lucky breaks in an alternate timeline, leading to this...

The Massacre of William Elphinstone's army during the 1842 retreat from Kabul was, relatively speaking, one of the worst disasters suffered by the British military: 4.500 British troops and more than 10.000 civilians were driven from Kabul and were either killed or captured by Afghan tribesmen...

Suppose that the 1857 Sepoy Mutiny or whatever is TTL's equivalent of it is much more successful than OTL, completely expelling the British East India Company from the Indian Subcontinent by the end of the 1850s. The how is irrelevant here, only the end result and its consequences. So? India is...

Like it says on the tin. What PODs, from, say, 1830 onward could help the rebels score more victories or at least hold out against the British for longer? Two good ones could be keeping the Delhi arsenal from being blown up and getting John Nicholson out of the picture somehow, since he saved...

While not as well remembered in this site as the Battle of Plassey, the Battle of Buxar was just as (if not even more) important in the establishment of British hegemony in India, since it consolidated their control of Bengal and turned Oudh/Awadh into their puppet. What if they lost...

Alright, something that has been in my head lately There's some TLs where Britain is invaded successfully and others where the british government is overthrow, usually resulting in the brits pulling a Portugal and moving to their american colonies with Kaiserreich's Dominion and Code Geass's...

Just a smaller exercise of Alternate History, But what if George VI and Queen Mother Elizabeth were assassinated in India during their proposed Durbar in 1937 ? In OTL, George VI was planning on holding a Durbar in Delhi just like his Father before him but decided not to due to rising...

This is a very hard thing to do, but let's say that Bahadur Shah Zafar rejects the Sepoys and aids the British to putting the Sepoys down. Let's say for the sake of the thread, Zafar manages to hold Delhi in a siege using his personal troops and the small British detachment in the city for as...

The Battle of Plassey is commonly accepted as the beginning of French Domination of Northern India. But, what if Mir Jafar’s treachery was never discovered and he successfully defects during the battle. Would the British have been able to successfully seize control of Northern India add it to...

Before we begin, this is a Double Blind, where we ask an alt. history question from the perspective of someone in an alternate history- so if we ask 'WI the CP won WW1,' those people ask 'WI the Entente won WW1' OTL, India was carved up into several spheres of influence like Africa and the rest...

The Point of Divergence is 1825 AD and you have to achieve the goal before 1914 AD. Your goal here is to have Thailand be Partitioned between Britain and France as a part of their colonial empire rather then a buffer state like our Timeline. Will the French add East Thailand to French Indochina...

So what if, during the union between England and the Netherlands under William III, the decision was made to merge the East India Companies of both states? They were each other's first and foremost rivals and together they could pretty much monopolize the East India trade, forcing the Danish...

With a pod from the reign of King George III who was a very active monarch till around the 1890's British Empire how can the Crown retake power from Parliament and unofficially sideline the parliament into a rubber stamp like how the French Kings (Louis XIV) did it and Augustus sidelining the...

After WW1 and the Turkish war of independence, Mustafa Kemal abolished the Ottoman caliphate. The last caliph, Abdulmejid II, was sent into exile. However, there was a pan-Islamic movement among Muslims in British India at the time called the Khilafat Movement, which sought restore the...

As we all know, Mahatma Gandhi was committed to civil disobedience and non-violence, even in extreme situations. Yet, what if that was different? What if Gandhi was actively violent, aggressive, and willing to do anything to get his way? What would the Indian independence movement under his...

Another scenario focusing on Indo-Afghan relations... IOTL, the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-80) was an armed conflict fought in Afghanistan that pitted the British, who intended to estabilish an embassy in Kabul, secure their border, and perhaps also appoint a puppet Emir, against the Barakzai...