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Originally Posted by robkelk
As for India's internal affairs, I don't know enough about that part of history to comment meaningfully.
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That's why I posted links. Jinnah kept the partition force coherent, with him dead, the desire to create an Islamic state out of sections of India would remain, but it would have had any practical structure. Gandhi and Nerhu were both anti-mondern and anti-technological, they also were against birth control. Meanwhile Ambedkar was pro-technology, pro-moderisation, able to see the benefits of more than one kind of ecconomy, and free of much other bagage.
If Ambedkar had been the major shaping force in South Asia, a United India (compossed of India, Pakistan, Bangledesh, and Myanmar) is possible. And having an India as ecconomically developed as Japan or Korea is narrowly possible as well. A world where India has a population of 600 million and they live in a society were the per capita wealth is only about 10% less than South Korea's would have very different power structures.
China dislikes fears India as it is. An India that's China's clear superior would drive Russia and China into an allience. Perhaps Iran, which in this world would share a border with India, would also be in the Russo-Chinese allience. A cold war in Asia could pull the USA in as well. Thus you've got a seriously nasty mess.