What would have been the best solution to Indian indipendence?

That's not why the English pulled out.

India was costing more than it was making, and strikes made the problem worse.

They resisted the first East India company invasions pretty well. It's when they started fucking each over after that they fell.

Not to mention how weak England was after WW2

>India was costing more than it was making, and strikes made the problem worse.
Proof?

Yes, they did so well stopping merchant's guards instead of a real army. Such incredible martial skill.

>Yes, they did so well stopping merchant's guards instead of a real army.
They did?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Anglo-Mysore_War

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Anglo-Maratha_War

It was the Marathas destroyed the Mysorean army because of a long history of bad relations and basically did the dirty work for the Brits, allowing them to then easily defeat a weakened Mysorean army in the second Anglo Mysore wars.

It's worth remembering that the Maratha's at this point are barely a husk of what they used to be lmao

And even then, post WW2 India had plenty of trained, battle heartened troops.

Indian history from 1757 to 1945 has to be humiliating as fact if you're a nationalist.

>Allow European joint-stock company to gather revenue in Bengal, the most productive part of India
>Uses revenue and resources of Bengal to recruit and drill a massive army of sepoys
>Conquer other Indian statelets with said sepoys
>Repeat, rinse, & maim

The fact that the Indians couldn't get their shit together and willingly became the cannon fodder to English imperialism is hilarious as fuck. Not even the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857 is something to harp about because the vast majority of the army remained loyal to their white paymasters. Not to mention the native princes who remained allied with the Brits.

I honestly can't decide which former colony of England's is more cucked: India or Ireland? Because Ireland had the same fucking problem despite being MUCH smaller and practically homogenous in population before Strongbow's invasion in 1169. The Irish couldn't get unite and expel a foreign invader back in to the sea. And both the Indians and Irish provided some of the finest soldiers in England's military history.

>Allow European joint-stock company to gather revenue in Bengal, the most productive part of India
>>Uses revenue and resources of Bengal to recruit and drill a massive army of sepoys
>Conquer other Indian statelets with said sepoys
>Repeat, rinse, & maim
Benglas have always been subhuman cucks. I'm an Indian nationalist. Not a South Asian one.

>The fact that the Indians couldn't get their shit together and willingly became the cannon fodder to English imperialism is hilarious as fuck. Not even the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857 is something to harp about because the vast majority of the army remained loyal to their white paymasters.
Did you do any researching yourself or are you just going with what you read on Wikipedia?
They had no commonality with one another. Most of the kingdoms fighting didnt consider the 1857 Sepoy Mutiny as a fight for independence —to the, the revolt was largely to re-establish the thrones that existed before the Brit's arrived. They were long since irrelevant kingdom's trying to grab scraps of their glory days.
Not to mention the revolters chose Islam as their symbolic come back which was a big no no for the other (mostly hindu) kingdoms.

>Not to mention the native princes who remained allied with the Brits.
Humans are greedy.

Like I said. India post WW2 was much more united than it ever was. I'm going to sleep so don't expect a reply le ebin shitposter

* to them

They should've made the Raj a confederation in the sense as Malaysia is. The Princely States should've been federal member states from the beginning on who have full ensurance that their principalities would not be abolished. The presidencies could turn into small republics and combine it all into some United States of India or whatever fancy name they want to use (Indian Commonwealth?)

Since a large part of the princes were mudslimes anyways the muds shouldn't be too scared for oppression if you got a collection of rich dudes with beards and fancy moustaches protecting your rights through vetoing with a voting bloc.

They maybe should've transferred a few populations around in the Punjab area to form a (perhaps rump-) Sikh state so that they won't get pushed around through institutional gerrymandering.

It was a bluff.

See, it went this way:
>call for seperate india
>hindus oppose because fuck you
>moves towards unified india
>Jinnah agrees to this
>hindus realise that this would be agreeing with Jinnah and risk having to share political power
>hindus have a bitch fit, then go to the British and do a 'Split it now, with the muslims kicked out, and we'll stay in the commonwealth'

Being divided by religion AND languages

Gas the poos! Hygiene War now!

Make it Muslim

This

The Marathas were the last chance for the native Hindus to reassert themselves as masters of the subcontinent after centuries of Muslim conquest. Too bad they fucked up after losing to the Afghans and the EIC.

The Sikhs, on the other hand, was a real tragic story. All of Ranjit Singh's work was undone shortly after his death.

Those countries being?

A single Indian nation with her dissident Muslims expelled.

By the way I think Pakistan should be destroyed.

Pakicia Delenda Est

>He wasn't a practicing Muslim, ate pork, enjoyed whisky, and was in favor of a more secular government akin to Turkey.

This doesn't detract from the Muslim Leagues demands though. Even the founders of Israel were primarily atheist or non-practicing Jews.

The problem is that India was too diverse to try and unite from the inside. Very few empires have conquered the whole/majority of the Indian subcontinent, and all native ones that achieved this did so before Muslims came to India, which only added more diversity and conflict. Pretty much every large empire after the Guptas, save the Marathas I suppose, were outsiders.

To unite India from the inside, you need a full scale Indian nationalist movement, which didn't happen till the late 1800s. You could argue that the Marathas had a sort of Hindu rallying cry against Muslims, but it was seemingly not strong enough to do much at the time. Likely because Muslims were way too entrenched into the societies of Indian states following the Mughals.

It took another outsider to conquer the whole of India. Western ideas of nationalism then had to trickle down to Indians for it to finally work out. At this point I'm still amazed India hasn't balkanized and I can only assume it's because feelings of unity from the British says combined with some other factors. It's essentially Europe but one country.

British rule.

The world needs more talented and intelligent Brits to set their shit straight. Pic related for one.

Only non-white British though, Right? Youre not a racist are you?

Of course not goyim :^)

Remaining under British rule.

>all these memes about the British itt
Indian's (per capita) have never been richer than any other time in history. And that's after inheriting an economy that was one of the poorest in the developing world and communism.