Raj Karega Khalsa



In OTL, The Sikh Kingdom of Punjab was consolidated and expanded by Maharajah Ranjit Singh during the early years of the nineteenth century. During the same period, the British East India Company's territories had been expanded until they were adjacent to the Punjab. Ranjit Singh maintained an uneasy alliance with the East India Company, while increasing the military strength of the Khalsa (the Sikh Army, which also saw itself as the embodiment of the state and religion), to deter British aggression against his state and to expand Sikh territory to the north and north west, capturing territory from Afghanistan and Kashmir. When Ranjit Singh died in 1839, the Sikh Empire began to fall into disorder. There was a succession of short-lived rulers at the central Durbar (court), and increasing tension between the Khalsa and the Durbar. The East India Company began to build up its military strength on the borders of the Punjab. Eventually, the increasing tension goaded the Khalsa to invade British territory, under weak and possibly treacherous leaders. The hard-fought First Anglo-Sikh War ended in defeat for the Khalsa.

In this ATL, Maharajah Ranjit Singh lived to fight the East India Company, and defeat them decisively. As a result, the British gave Punjab parts of their North American colonies, today South Canada, as part of treaty for Punjab to not touch Britsh colonies. After annexing what today is South Canada, Punjab went onto create one of the world's largest colonial empires in history. Punjab is one of the richest and powerful countries in the world.

Other things before the Anglo-Sikh Wars also happened in this ATL -


 * North Africa remained storng and wasn't coloni(z/s)ied by Europeans and Arabs, meaning that Islam and Christianty had little impact on North Africa.


 * Some Native American civili(z/s)ations defeated Europeans.


 * Japan also managed to take over parts of South America.
 * Constantinople never went to Turkish control.
 * Maoris kept hold of North Island.
 *  New Zealand was coloni(z/s)ied by the Dutch rather than the British.
 *  Bengal wasn't  Islamin(z/s)ied and remained an overwhelming Hindu majority.
 * Australasia is a part of Eurasia rather than it's own continent.