[quote=Fisheye]
The more drama the better, in most RP cases. Anyway, I had planned on getting into a bit of conflict during the war (or series of wars, I suppose) so the devastation in India and the need to rebuild and recuperate is both expected and accepted. I must ask what exactly you mean by glassed, though. Was the environment in northern India just war-torn in the fifteen years of bombing and chaos or was there limited nuclear exchange between Pakistan and India? The use of nuclear warheads would be interesting, though I don't think it's too probable that it wouldn't cause a larger nuclear exchange.I had also been thinking that India and China could have a conflict, though it wouldn't necessarily have to be a war. I haven't really worked out the details (at all, in fact- it's just a rough idea), but it'd probably be over a border dispute and the Indians trying to reinstall the Dalai Lama at the head of an independent Tibet.
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The Indians aren't necessarily Buddhists, so they wouldn't care. The only "powerful" people I can imagine who would care are the Eastern Spirituality minded western folk. And their governments would really have more going on than trying to position themselves on one side of what would then be a theological succession crisis. Tenzin has said that when he is reincarnated it will be anywhere but China, and the Chinese government has gone through the legal motions that effectively allows them to approve a Dalai Lama; this has interesting implications for Tibetan Buddhism, but probably isn't on the list of things to accomplish by any current world powers.

And the scale of the conflict would probably be continent wide. This is projecting forward current Maoist dissidence in the Eastern part of the country and a pattern of ignoring various ethnic or social groups the current, powerful Indian Nationalist Party doesn't care about, and bad Pakistani-Indian relations that could ignite into a nuclear exchange for Kashmir.

The point of destroying India's economic abilities in a devastating war as a theater of the greater War was for me to talk about how parts of Africa are trying to use the economic window to finally expand their economy as ASN - my faction - patrols central Africa trying to keep the peace as per a contract privatizing large parts of their security. The damage to the world food supply by removing India would imply to them a chance to maybe expand themselves in their already low-standing on the tiers of economy. They're trying to produce the rice and wheat India did.

I could also see Beijing challenging Delhi's power in the chaotic state of the world and moving in to keep a powerful neighbor in check so they can claim absolute hegemony over Asia. And I think both nations have territorial disputes either one could press when there's no one policing the world anymore.