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  1. WI: Islam banned in China, 1724

    In 1724, the magistrate Chen Shiguan submitted the following memorial to Beijing: [Islam] is a perverse doctrine that deceives the people and should be banned by law. Those who enter it do not respect Heaven and Earth and do not worship the gods, instead setting up their own cultic deity [...]...

  2. WI: Great Lhasa Jihad succeeds

    In 1532, Said Khan, ruler of a sizable Muslim sultanate in Central Asia, decided to launch a holy war for Tibet. The khan was under the misconception that Lhasa was some sort of Mecca for Buddhism - and, after all, what could be greater than destroying the Mecca of idolatry? For some strange...

  3. WI: The Sepoys successfully oust the British from Java, 1815

    In Java, 1815, the British made their preparations to return the island (a Napoleonic-era conquest) to the Dutch. But the British Indian troops of the Light Infantry Battalion were quite frustrated - and quite worried. They were frustrated because they had been on duty in a foreign land...

  4. Sons of cloves and fire: The rise of a Ternaten empire

    I was dissatisfied with my abortive Maluku TL, so here's another try. Dunno where I'm going with this. This will probably be a short timeline, focusing solely on eastern Indonesia for maybe a generation. I'm not planning very far ahead, but I'll try to update every week or two (no definitive...

  5. Unity in Disunity: North Maluku in the Early Modern Era

    Here goes my first, and hence probably not-very-good, TL. ----- (All maps from Leonard Andaya's The World of Maluku: Eastern Indonesia in the Early Modern Era, the virtually only source for English-language maps of the region, unless otherwise stated) The Spice Islands. The very name itself...

  6. Poll: When was Constantinople most likely to fall in the 7th and 8th centuries?

    626: The siege of Constantinople in 626 was both the culmination of the last great Roman-Persian War and the first of centuries' worth of large-scale attacks on the New Rome. The Sasanians had marched from their homelands in Mesopotamia and the Iranian Plateau all the way to the Asian side of...

  7. Interest in a Malukan TL?

    I originally wanted to write something on the Qing but that turned out to be a bit too ambitious, so I've been looking into Indonesian history in the Early Modern era. And it's apparent that there's more than enough material for a TL on North Maluku[1] from a perspective that looks at the...

  8. How realistic can (or should) a TL be?

    I've been writing the draft for a TL which involves the Indian Ocean world in the 18th century, and increasingly I've been feeling discouraged because it feels impossible to achieve any degree of realism without being very, very knowledgeable about every corner of the world. I mean, the history...

  9. Sources on 18th-century Somalia?

    It's quite unfortunate (both in general, and for the purposes of a TL I'm envisaging) that there appear to be very few academic sources on the Somali sultanates of the Early Modern era. Even the relevant volume of the UNESCO General History of Africa series primarily focuses on the fortunes of...

  10. British India vs Hypothetical Qing India: Would anyone have been as exploitative as Europe? No.

    Edit, since the "edit title" function has disappeared in this board: I mean "everyone" by "anyone," in that not everyone would have been exploitative as Europe, not that no one would have been as exploitative as Europe. One user downthread was confused about this and I thought I'd clear this up...

  11. Does the VOC survive if it loses Indonesia during the War of the Spanish Succession?

    My incipient TL involves Qing China constructing a large European-style fleet (this has Chinese precedent in the 1630s) and conquering the Dutch East India Company's Southeast Asian territories during the War of the Spanish Succession in response to the Dutch harboring and patronizing large...

  12. The British fail at Seringapatnam, 1799. Effects on British India?

    Mysore under the Haidar Ali dynasty (1761-1799) was one of British India's most implacable foes in the 18th century, fighting the East India Company to a stalemate as late as the 1780s through its innovative technological and administrative reforms (the Mysorean rockets, for instance, or its...

  13. Zunghar survival --> Qing military modernization?

    This conjecture comes from Peter C. Perdue, the leading Western historian on the Qing conquest of the Mongols. In the conclusion of his masterpiece China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia, he notes that historian R. Bin Wong believes that had the Zheng regime had survived in...
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