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So there really is no possible way to allow a united India without foreign intervention, unless you change the culture hundreds or thousands of years before my TL or any close to 975 CE?

Though, can you explain why exactly the Marathas can't last?

How can the British be stopped from taking over India? Would it be possible that Britain can unite India, without dominating it? Could they, and the other European powers, establish protectorates of sorts, and disputes between them, both tributaries and the dominant powers, the subcontinent would be united via large-scale warfare?