Republic of India

Flag of The Republic of India

**India**, Officially the **Republic of India**, is one of the last socialist nations left and is the main country on the Indian Subcontinent. India is a Socialist Republic with only socialist parties allowed to run within its government. Currently the Prime Minister is the radical socialist Jawaharlal Nehru. In 1938 the collapse of the Princely Federation sparked a chain of events leading to the Indian Unification War. This war devastated much of the Country but also led to the reunification of the subcontinent. Aside from the South and a couple of ports. The republic of India was officially proclaimed on January 7th of 1939 after a ceremony officially ending the war and moving the capital back to Delhi. India did not participate in the Second Weltkrieg rather spending the time rebuilding and militarizing to retake the rest of the territory, However this came too little too late as India has now been left in the dust by the rest of the world. India looks to make a Fourth Internationale in Asia and Latin America and attempt to rekindle the global revolution after it was crushed in 1948.

## History

In 1936 India was in three pieces, the Bharatiya Commune, Dominion of India, and the Princely Federation. Split by the revolution in India over 10 years ago the three pieces where all radically different from one another. The Dominion of India was still loyal to the Entente while the Princely Federation was a collection of Princedoms left over from the ages of old. But in Calcutta there was another faction, a socialist force wishing to overthrow the tyrants of the Indian people and establish a workers utopia. These three realms would all end up taking their own paths that would lead to two factions destruction. The Princely Federation was unstable and needed a centralizing force. Thus an attempt to stabilize the nation would be taken where a new "Emperor" would be crowned. Establishing the "Empire of India". This would later prove to be a terrible decision. Meanwhile a new governor was elected in the Dominion who was not native to the region. This would only end up agitating the people within the province and would later serve to help the republic. Meanwhile the Bharatyia commune elected a radical socialist who wanted to take India into the arms of the Third Internationale. However the new Emperor in the south would end up triggering a chain of events leading to the collapse of this tenuous peace. It all started when the three southern provinces, Madras, Mysore, and Travancore all declared open revolt against the Emperor. The Bharatyia Commune would take advantage of this instability and declare war on the Empire making quick gains. However the Dominion with the support of the Entente would declare war on both hoping to reunify India once again. Thus began the Indian Unification War witch would begin with massive offensives by both the Commune and the Dominion into the Federation only stopped by a desperate defensive line in Hyderabad. Then the two titans attacked each other but the failing morale of the civilian and military people within the Dominions ranks caused lack of loyalty to the cause and the Dominion despite being stronger would lose cohesion and collapse being quickly gobbled up by the Commune. The Federation had been mostly focusing on getting rid of its rebellious provinces but was unable to put down the rebellion. This would prove to be its undoing with Hyderabad falling the nation collapsed and India was \*mostly\* unified. After the reunification India would spend the next 5 years rebuilding and getting prepared to try and help out the Internationale when the time came. It also was rebuilding its military to try and eventually retake the south and reclaim the port of Gwadar. However by 1943 things where not looking good for the Internationale and the prime minister at the time decided along with parliament to avoid putting India in danger and instead focus on rebuilding the socialist world after the Internationale falls. This would prove to be a smart decision as Japan and Germany made a peace deal and Japan began to focus back on Asia and especially India. India has missed its opportunities to bring back its flakes back in the fold and now looks towards finding allies. As its isolation may eventually be its undoing.

## Military

India's military while large is very outdated using equipment back from 1938 in the majority of units. Its military is its strongest force having more than 4 million personel. However this is very large and difficult to sustain with the industry the nation has. India's Navy has suffered neglect and is mostly abandoned Entente vessels and a couple of corvettes. India's Air Force is in it's infancy but is now getting attention as Oman and its southern neighbors begin to build up their own.