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Ming China's Yongle Emperor sent maritime expeditions under Admiral Zheng He to establish imperial control over the maritime trade, to bring the maritime trade into the tributary system and to force foreign countries to comply with the tributary system. But the expeditions were stopped to divert...

Like overall if, we're going from a POD, what kind of reforms would the countries of the Indian Subcontinent need to take (if no other country changes unless otherwise) for them to achieve a similar growth trajectory of China? I'm just trying to understand what kind of policies would need to be...

Okay, so meanwhile I asked MANY, MANY, MANY question about Dutch history. I am already bush with my TL called Oranje Boven which I will continue later, but I want to make a smaller TL like a kind of pause in this. A TL in a chronologic form in which I write which happens per year, possibly with...

After seeing the map below, I wanted to develop this scenario. How could India and China swap places after WW2? India becomes a powerful authoritarian nation. because it was expansionist at first, it controls the area of the British Raj + Tibet + Nepal + Bhutan. India claims Sri Lanka but the...

Could South Asia rival East Asian economies if it had played it's cards right? Much of South Asia did have a well established system of governance and good transportation systems relative to much of Asia. Burma and Sri Lanka were better off than South Korea in the 1950s, but all this changed due...

In OTL, during the Napoleonic Wars, the Netherlands lost Ceylon to the British Empire. The British then defeated the Kingdom of Kandy, which was a kingdom in Ceylon (The Dutch only owned the coastal areas of Ceylon). But what if in an alternate timeline, the Netherlands defeated the Kingdom of...

So in this case the POD is 1989 where all the countries of the Indian Subcontinent experience some changes which allows for them to experience highers amounts of growth and results in them gaining wealth. As a result by 2019 all of the countries are upper middle income nations with their...

Up until the late 15th century, it was possible to walk between India and Sri Lanka, because Adam's Bridge was entirely above sea level. Then, in about 1480, a cyclone hit the bridge, causing parts of it to be permanently submerged. What if Adam's Bridge had remained passable on foot?

Ceylon attained dominion status in 1948 and became the Republic of Sri Lanka in 1972. Now most commonwealth states that became republics did so within a few years of their independence, very few waited more than a decade before making the switch. Ceylon's 24 years make it the third longest...

The Lanka Sama Samaja Party, active in Sri Lanka since British Dominion times, has a lengthy history, and is notable for being one of the few parties in the "third world" of mass appeal who openly praised Soviet dissident figure Leon Trotsky. For most of their history, they were even larger than...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_JVP_insurrection If the JVP planned the insurrection better, and if the distress call sent by the Sri Lankan government to friendly nations for help was never received by those friendly countries because the JVP cut off telegram lines, could Sri Lanka become a...

Have Denmark or Denmark-Norway controll Ceylon. Ceylon is today know as Sri Lanka. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka Edit: (added) Some links related to Danish activity in the region. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_India https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_East_India_Company

The situation between The People’s Republic of China and the Taiwan-based Republic of China continues to be both a frustrating and fascinating political quagmire. However, what if this situation emerged in India instead, where India went “communist” under a Mao-like leader, and the capitalist...

The Portuguese at one point controlled Sri Lanka for a while, then they lost the colony due to Dutch Invasions which was turned into a Dutch Colony, what would happen if Portugal managed to keep the colony from invaders like the Dutch? Would we have a Portuguese speaking island country like...