burma

In my standards, one interesting AH scenario i have heard of is Japan's planned invasion of India in WW2, in 1944. The japanese and their allies were making inroads into Assam, the Burma Road had already been abandoned in panic. Fortunately for the Allies, the IJA and the Indian National Army...

Following World War II, independence in the Indian subcontinent was inevitable. However, some Bengali leaders, such as Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy and Sarat Chandra Bose called for a United Bengal, which was to encompass Bengal and Assam. Jinnah and the Muslim League supported it, while the INC...

IOTL Rohingya leaders came to Jinnah to ask him to make the Muslim-majority areas of Burma as parts of East Pakistan. Jinnah accepted, though what if he had declined?

Federated Shan States were formed in 1922 and were a part of British Burma although administrated separately from it. They consisted of modern Shan and Kayah states of Myanmar. There were plans in 1920s-1940s to settle Anglo-Indians to Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Charles Haswell Campagnac...

Today I was watching a documentary on the war in the pacific and it was mentioned that Vandergrift was a general gifted at training troops and planing good operations, he also served in China between the wars. So if Vandegrift is sent instead of vinegar joe (say he is left in charge of the north...

What if the Restored Hanthawaddy Kingdom, which briefly broke off from Burma in the 18th century, didn't have such an incompetent military leadership? IOTL, the rebel armies went far enough as to even capture Ava, but a premature retreat under the illusion of victory, leaving little troops to...

Okay, I'm not technically asking for Burma as a Great Power, though that would be kind of cool to see. What I want is actually something more along the lines of Burma managing to resist colonization by the British and industrializing - I imagine that this would rather naturally lead to Burma...

I had the idea when I was thinking about my (unfinished yet) "Hitler tries the Mediterranean strategy" TL. What if FDR had decided to send many troops (I'm talking about at least 100,000 men) to Burma, if the Brits had agreed and, later, after the Burma road (from Burma to China) was re-opened...