India's history is changed on this world as well. Because the history of WWII was radically changed by the cargo saucers, large amounts of grain were imported into India from America during the war reducing the number of famines caused by the need to deny the Japanese India's grain. This caused both Gandhi and Nehru to be at a grain distribution event were a Hindu radical killed them both. This left
B. R. Ambedkar leading the independence movement.
Ambedkar, was radically different than Gandhi and far more pragmatic. Where Gandhi fought modernization, attacked birth control, rejected technology, and had strange and destructive ideas on race and sex, Ambedkar embraced the modern, fought racism and sexism, promoted family planning and technological advancement. Because Ambedkar's diabetes was treated by the rapidly improving medical technology of
Azoth-8 he is still alive at the age of 79 and in excellent health.
Replacing Gandhi and Nehru in India's first decades of independence, Ambedkar lead to rapid and stunning growth in India. Many traditionalists were bitter and furious with this growth and modernization. Throwing them a bone, and shrewdly noticing how Western Alchemy was now valuable, Ambedkar set up a "Traditional Studies Bureau" to gather, classify, collate, and study, India's traditional lore and knowledge.
At first sneered at as the Bureau of Yoga and Vedas this organisation has recovered a great amount of India's ancient scholarship including India's Alchemy and
Ayurveda medical lore. Which is creating an Alchemical boomlet in India.
Both the USSR and China want this data. And to destroy any data they can't steal. This is risky, because India is an emerging superpower in this world. Both the USSR and China prefer to use Pakistan to do the dirty work. More deniability that way.