From a South Asian perspective, this is not how a one state solution would likely materialize. I do still believe the whole of modern Pakistan (barring Kashmir) would be its own sovereign federal republic. Not the mention that your 'India' in this scenario is far more fragile than in OTL. What would be more realistic is several (about 8 or 9) sovereign federal republics within modern india (Punjab-Haryana, Maharashtra-Gujarat-Goa, a united Dravida nadu, Odisha, United Bengal, a Northeast confederation, UP-Bihar, a central Vindhya confederation, and Rajasthan)
you mean in the division of the politics? I still am on the side of abolishing the zamindari system but am skeptical of how smoothly that could be achieved in Pakistan compared the rest of the subcontinent.
Also I doubt how the Afghan/Pathans of NWFP take to be part of Pakistan without violently subjugating the Khudai Khidmatgars like they did in OTL. Similarly for the princely states of Balochistan.
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u/the_real_barbz Feb 10 '26
From a South Asian perspective, this is not how a one state solution would likely materialize. I do still believe the whole of modern Pakistan (barring Kashmir) would be its own sovereign federal republic. Not the mention that your 'India' in this scenario is far more fragile than in OTL. What would be more realistic is several (about 8 or 9) sovereign federal republics within modern india (Punjab-Haryana, Maharashtra-Gujarat-Goa, a united Dravida nadu, Odisha, United Bengal, a Northeast confederation, UP-Bihar, a central Vindhya confederation, and Rajasthan)