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Mostly just southern India, going northwards into north-central India.

Vijayanagara would be a good bet, but I suspect that they'd get much larger than otl and collapse a bit later than in otl. Mysore would be a good bet to take the void in the south.

As in tech and ideas getting introduced later, along with no Muslim cultural/religious influence.

Mughals conquer any of it, then you have otl.

Quite frankly, the European states did not have a desire to outright control India. That the Brits dominated it to such an extent was in many ways an accident of history, and not anywhere near as total as you would think.

If you have no Mughals, then a disunited India is not impossible with client states/treaty ports.

But in that context, you will not see anything close to a united India. As I have said before, that it is united otl is very unusual in history, and is in many ways the equivalent of a unitary European state.