with 17th century guns

yea

the princely states

cucks all of them

I don't india could have gone through a meiji restoration tbh

well it was ont he path towards it

some of the bigger clans, and the sikh empire in the nrothwest were industrializing and m odernizing their armies

japan was left alone because it was difficult to reach, geographically unimportant and had no major natural resources.
India was easy to reach for europe, geographically essential for asian trade and had a fuck tonne of resources, Europe wasn't gonna let india unify under native rule.

the sikhs couldve beaten the bongs in the first anglo-sikh war had the bongs not bribed their genrals

the british feared that the siksh would invade the part of india thatw as ruled by ol john comapny

and that the sepoys would revolt and join the sikhs

leading to sikh dominion in norht india

and prolly south too

they cut the head off the snake

by bribing the commanders

who were loyal tot he sikh queen

the queen wa sin a power struggle with the khalsa

the queen signed a pact with the bongs in orde rto secure her throne

as for the maratha empire

though if britain was forced out france would have tried to move in.
and if both were forced out you could expect russia and japan to try to gain power.

Even if india managed to gain true independence from britain it was going to spend the 19th century being harried, invaded and undermined.

it had fractured into anhindred lil kingodms

well france did try to conquer

was btfod

but

youre right chancellor

russia woudlnt have been able

russia would not have been able

as it was halted by the Emirate fo Afhanistan (19th centue)

shit my typing is crap

anyway

>sikhs could have beaten the british

but with britain forced out of the region they likely would have pushed into afghanistan and persia

search up the great game

The only reason Britain stopped killing you was because it cost too much money

AnMaonach read the book "flashman and the mountain of light"

hsitorical documents predicted that siksh would win

rmeebr

*remember

Mate that's a novel

It's fictional

historical documents predicted hitler would be a moderate