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1 ) Extremist Islam activities over in Pakistan have also have garnered even greater hatred of such things, but have also been used by India's current Muslim minority to basically make their differences known and distinct and preached aloud in attempts to help improve and curb their own perceptions locally. This "Indian brand of Islam" has been on a rise, at least, though still remains a small minority among other religions that have found their way into India. Even so, anti-Muslim violence is a shadow of what it was in the climax of the 70s, but is still something that is present and continues to go on the decline within India.
2) Whilst issues such as sanitation and education and gender issues have been improved from before, at least, and are still improving, they still linger even in current times. Meanwhile urbanization and issues like water scarcity have been better improved than this along the path of this India's development, at the very least. Finally the issue of medical health is by far the most minimized in an India where the nation has become top-dog #1 in regards to biomedical technologies and practice. Governmental health programs have at least been able to push this last issue to the 'least' among the ones India has internally thus far, and which are still being worked on over the years.
3) Pakistan still existing. Aside from its conflicts with Pakistan in the past, and current measures of sanctions and such leveled very hard against them outside of conflict by India, the desire of many Indians and their government is to one day basically turn Pakistan into a red paste, root out the extremists and get rid of them, then retake and resettle and modernize the land. Especially after refugee tales of extremist actions, anti-Hindi issues, and other such rumors and tales and stories that have passed over into India since post-Visitation and the 70's.
4) The nation has a grudge against China for attempting to spark revolts or communist influence it in the past, which has led to basically a modern-day 'rough border' situation where the Indian border with China has been reinforced and built up and fortified over the decades with occasional 'scuffles' and constant attempts to intimidate by both sides...but nothing to provoke all-out war or MAD or WW3 or the like at least. No one, in reality, would probably want that to happen.
1 ) In the wake of American actions, China's rise, and other post-Visitation issues, Bollywood has actually boomed to become as popular in the world as things like anime and Hollywood movies were in real life. To some this is a blessing. To others this is a cursed alternate timeline.
2)
The Greater Republic of India
Name
Bharat/The Greater Republic of India
Flag
Government
Parliamentary Sovereign Secular Democratic Republic with a federal structure and unitary features. There is a Council of Ministers with the Prime Minster as its head to advice the President who is the constitutional head of the country.
Territory
India, Jammu and Kashmir
History
Post-Visitation Through Now
India basically went a bit crazy post-visitation, an amount of religious unrest naturally accompanying the issues at hand. Whilst the adherent of Hinduism seemed to be more able to accept the event and cope with it religiously, Islam within India handled it less aptly than what their neighbor religion was to what might be some people's lack or presence of surprise thereof. Indeed post-visitation India's barely decade-old government was put through the wringer and going into full-survival mode as anomalies, artifacts, internal issues both new and lingering, and external influences tore away at it with zeal. It was a hard time to be sure, one that The new government would come to survive the tide and pull the nation out and upward over the following decades, mainly through aggressive development and peacekeeping plans, especially as big, deep, and rich Langium deposits were discovered within its borders. In current times it stands as the #1 developer and producer/developer of biomedical technologies in the world after 3 decades of internal development and industrialization and such things, both in civilian as well as military areas. Soviet five year plan models were used as inspiration to help this process along at first, akin to basically how India was in the 60s in real life.
But this didn't come without its fair share of scars along the way. Pakistani relations basically went down the hole, the Jammu and Kashmir area was finally annexed after taking advantage of Pakistan's own vulnerabilities during the post-Visitation period, and anti-Muslim violence arose in the 70s as extremist groups to the west began to form and develop. Currently Islam is a distinctly more peaceful minority within India, one that has begun to see an improvement in their rights and such going into the 90s and after decades of rather 'unpopular' issues. Likewise things like women's right and the legal rejection of untouchability have been pushed hard against to help 'speed up the process' of modernization along the way, though with the older generations these sorts of issues still rather linger and the fight against continues on even through now. Yet in return the younger generations are more and more embracing new technologies, progressive beliefs, western or foreign clothing styles, and other such things that would be seen as 'modern' in the current world. It is a generational gap that usually results in parental scolding for many, despite being a sign of real progress, akin to how the children of America in real life got chewed out for listening to Metal in the 80's or Rock in the 50's. But as teens and young adults walk about in jeans and T-shirts, and indulge in other modern conveniences, they continue to push India towards a bright future socially.
Further, India sports a rather large and powerful military in current times. One aspect of their military is the use of cluster munitions and bombs with certain NLC's incorporated into them, which are an Indian Military favorite to use in certain situations. These ones after detonation dose victims in a given area with lethal heavy-metal poisoning, but even so this effect is designed to 'exploit loopholes' in or 'tease' the Geneva Conventions and 'cheat' the regulations on Chemical Warfare. Yet such unique weapons are only used to a certain extent. It is akin to the real life USA and such superpowers to a certain extent, where a nations still uses certain forms of certain weapons but also limit the use of them to certain situations to avoid actual proper sanctions or worse. Even so, things like MLRS or Bomb-released cluster munitions and the ilk without NLC's still remain very much legal and in use by the Indian Military. Any 'nukes' or such 'nuclear options' have, as most likely is the case with the other big nations, been basically kept under lock and key as a deterrent but aren't fired to avoid triggering a MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) situation. However, their own rocket technology has resulted in India eventually by this point becoming a solid part of the space race, and even launching satellites and manned missions and such into orbit!
The Indian Government has long established has trade relations with the USSR in turn, but also isn't a communist state nor wants to become one to be frank. Not to mention the neutrality they have enforced in regards to the major foreign political influences makes them more desirable trade partners for others, and enforcing a form/type of neutrality to a certain extent has paid off in this regard. This has also played some part in their politically Non-Aligned stance when it has come to the USSR and USA, and their nature as both a proper superpower as well as a massive local power by the 1990's. Likewise the British are something India's oldest generations still resent somewhat, despite doing some trade still, and the nation remains somewhat a little wary of simply due to the past. Feelings have begun to soften on that front with the younger and youngest generations, at least, though any chance of close political ties would be still generations away. Yet France's own sudden leaps and stop in decolonization has made India even more wary of that nation over the likes of the UK.
But this didn't come without its fair share of scars along the way. Pakistani relations basically went down the hole, the Jammu and Kashmir area was finally annexed after taking advantage of Pakistan's own vulnerabilities during the post-Visitation period, and anti-Muslim violence arose in the 70s as extremist groups to the west began to form and develop. Currently Islam is a distinctly more peaceful minority within India, one that has begun to see an improvement in their rights and such going into the 90s and after decades of rather 'unpopular' issues. Likewise things like women's right and the legal rejection of untouchability have been pushed hard against to help 'speed up the process' of modernization along the way, though with the older generations these sorts of issues still rather linger and the fight against continues on even through now. Yet in return the younger generations are more and more embracing new technologies, progressive beliefs, western or foreign clothing styles, and other such things that would be seen as 'modern' in the current world. It is a generational gap that usually results in parental scolding for many, despite being a sign of real progress, akin to how the children of America in real life got chewed out for listening to Metal in the 80's or Rock in the 50's. But as teens and young adults walk about in jeans and T-shirts, and indulge in other modern conveniences, they continue to push India towards a bright future socially.
Further, India sports a rather large and powerful military in current times. One aspect of their military is the use of cluster munitions and bombs with certain NLC's incorporated into them, which are an Indian Military favorite to use in certain situations. These ones after detonation dose victims in a given area with lethal heavy-metal poisoning, but even so this effect is designed to 'exploit loopholes' in or 'tease' the Geneva Conventions and 'cheat' the regulations on Chemical Warfare. Yet such unique weapons are only used to a certain extent. It is akin to the real life USA and such superpowers to a certain extent, where a nations still uses certain forms of certain weapons but also limit the use of them to certain situations to avoid actual proper sanctions or worse. Even so, things like MLRS or Bomb-released cluster munitions and the ilk without NLC's still remain very much legal and in use by the Indian Military. Any 'nukes' or such 'nuclear options' have, as most likely is the case with the other big nations, been basically kept under lock and key as a deterrent but aren't fired to avoid triggering a MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) situation. However, their own rocket technology has resulted in India eventually by this point becoming a solid part of the space race, and even launching satellites and manned missions and such into orbit!
The Indian Government has long established has trade relations with the USSR in turn, but also isn't a communist state nor wants to become one to be frank. Not to mention the neutrality they have enforced in regards to the major foreign political influences makes them more desirable trade partners for others, and enforcing a form/type of neutrality to a certain extent has paid off in this regard. This has also played some part in their politically Non-Aligned stance when it has come to the USSR and USA, and their nature as both a proper superpower as well as a massive local power by the 1990's. Likewise the British are something India's oldest generations still resent somewhat, despite doing some trade still, and the nation remains somewhat a little wary of simply due to the past. Feelings have begun to soften on that front with the younger and youngest generations, at least, though any chance of close political ties would be still generations away. Yet France's own sudden leaps and stop in decolonization has made India even more wary of that nation over the likes of the UK.
Pressing Issues
1 ) Extremist Islam activities over in Pakistan have also have garnered even greater hatred of such things, but have also been used by India's current Muslim minority to basically make their differences known and distinct and preached aloud in attempts to help improve and curb their own perceptions locally. This "Indian brand of Islam" has been on a rise, at least, though still remains a small minority among other religions that have found their way into India. Even so, anti-Muslim violence is a shadow of what it was in the climax of the 70s, but is still something that is present and continues to go on the decline within India.
2) Whilst issues such as sanitation and education and gender issues have been improved from before, at least, and are still improving, they still linger even in current times. Meanwhile urbanization and issues like water scarcity have been better improved than this along the path of this India's development, at the very least. Finally the issue of medical health is by far the most minimized in an India where the nation has become top-dog #1 in regards to biomedical technologies and practice. Governmental health programs have at least been able to push this last issue to the 'least' among the ones India has internally thus far, and which are still being worked on over the years.
3) Pakistan still existing. Aside from its conflicts with Pakistan in the past, and current measures of sanctions and such leveled very hard against them outside of conflict by India, the desire of many Indians and their government is to one day basically turn Pakistan into a red paste, root out the extremists and get rid of them, then retake and resettle and modernize the land. Especially after refugee tales of extremist actions, anti-Hindi issues, and other such rumors and tales and stories that have passed over into India since post-Visitation and the 70's.
4) The nation has a grudge against China for attempting to spark revolts or communist influence it in the past, which has led to basically a modern-day 'rough border' situation where the Indian border with China has been reinforced and built up and fortified over the decades with occasional 'scuffles' and constant attempts to intimidate by both sides...but nothing to provoke all-out war or MAD or WW3 or the like at least. No one, in reality, would probably want that to happen.
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1 ) In the wake of American actions, China's rise, and other post-Visitation issues, Bollywood has actually boomed to become as popular in the world as things like anime and Hollywood movies were in real life. To some this is a blessing. To others this is a cursed alternate timeline.
2)