The Federation of Akhand Bharat By jbkjbk2310 Watch

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Akhand Bharat, Undivided India.



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The newer, western parts of the union (Western Pashtunistan and Northern & Western Balochistan) were added to the Federation after the collapse of the USSR in 1990. As Russian influence in Central Asia and the Middle East waned, Afghanistan rapidly descended into a chaotic and bloody mess of a civil war. the Federation stepped in and annexed the Pastho and Balochi -speaking parts of the country. Afghani Pashtunistan remained an autonomous territory up until 2003 when it officially joined with the rest of Pashtunistan. Balochi Iran was a different story, as Iran was much less shaken from the USSR's collapse than other countries in the region. It would take a US/UK supported coup to push Iran into being unstable enough for rebels and seperatists to start revolting. One of the more successful of these groups was the Baloch Liberation Front, which fought for a unified Balochistan. Ideally, the BLF wanted an independent and unified Balochistan, but they also saw the benefits of becoming a highly autonomous state within Akhand Bharat, especially when complete unification was quite far off. in 1992, the Federation invaded and annexed Iranian Balochistan.

Kashmir and Jammu was another point of contension. During British rule, the region had been goverened by one of the many princely-states that served as puppets of the British Empire. Unlike most of the other states however, Kashmir & Jammu did not desire, and were not easily persuaded into joining the Federation, and had to be forced with a brief show of force from India. The brief Indo-Kashimiri ended when an agreement was signed that stated that Kashmir and Jammu were to join the federation, but remain a highly autonomous territory, which it remains to this day.

Lastly, there is the Shan region in eastern Burma, the easternmost region of the Federation, which remains a region with high unrest due to a large seperatist movement within the region known as the Shan State National Army, who desire independence from Akhand Bharat, as the Shan people are completely unrelated to any other ethnic group within the Federation.



Sphere of Influence

Akhand Bharat is the founder of the South Asia Cooperation Union (SACU), which started as a mutual security pact between India and Tibet to help protect against possible Chinese aggression, and later grew to include Vietnam, Laos, Tajikistan and Afghanistan. Today it has grown to become both and economic and political union as well, similar to the European Union in OTL. The Federation is also a founding member of teh Indian Ocean Trade Area (IOTA), which is a purely economic trade union between a series of different countries around the Indian Ocean. This union, along with several peacekeeping and investment initiatives, has allowed India to assert significant influence in east Africa.



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Published : Sep 28, 2016