Chapter 11 The Princely State of Junagad

Of course, these words were not said to the assistants in front of them, but Alan Wilson told these assistants to understand how to make a choice from the perspective of their own interests, "You must understand that once British India became independent, it became mainstream in London. What should we be thinking about right now? Now there are 100,000 civil servants and their families in British India, and in the future they will directly become Indians? ”

Seeing these assistants shaking their heads, obviously not interested in being Indian, Alan Wilson changed his words and said, "Then we have to consider another question, are there so many jobs left for those of us who have returned home?" Can we still stay in the civil service? ”

At this point, the meaning is already very clear, including Alan Wilson, the commissioner of Hyderabad, the civil servants of the entire British India are now at risk of losing their jobs, and it is not too much to fight for their own interests as much as possible for the sake of their future lives, knowing that they are now facing the richest man in the world.

This time the idea of unification was so successful that there was no need to imagine the future of unemployment, and out of the British settlements, there were ragged and idle people in the city of Hyderabad, staring and begging with numb eyes. Think of these hungry people as themselves, and it could be the scene of British India becoming independent and returning to British proper.

Thinking about this, when discussing the problem later, these assistants were obviously much smarter, and it seemed that they had grown up in a day, and they really looked like civil servants, and the temperament of students who walked out of the campus had disappeared.

In 1945, more than 5 million troops fought under the command of the British, and although Britain's main army was built with the navy as the mainstay, at this critical juncture of the world war, the army was also huge, taking tanks as an example, 26,000 were produced, including infantry tanks and cruiser tanks, and this is not counting the number of heavy tanks behind.

If you want to arm an Indian princely state, it is not a problem at all, the only question is whether someone will do it seriously.

During his first month in the princely state of Hyderabad, Alan Wilson became familiar with his work and wondered how he could profit from Ali Khan, the world's richest man, and play his part in the independence of British India, although there did not seem to be a standard answer to the question of British Indian independence.

But he also knew that the process of independence of British India could not be influenced by his capacity as Commissioner of Hyderabad, and that Alan had much to do in the two years leading up to independence.

Regarding the independence of British India, Alan Wilson certainly had his own ideas, and India after independence should not be too weak, otherwise it would not be able to play a role in balancing the world of peace and religion, but if it was too strong, India would not be at peace.

And after India's independence, how will it feel about the period of colonization by the British? There is no doubt that India will definitely consider it a national shame, and the joke about the British plundering of fifty trillion dollars, flooding the Internet for generations to come, will represent the thoughts of the Indians.

As long as there is no hateful neighbor to the north, Britain is generally the object of the Indian curse.

While forging personal friendships with the monarchs of Hyderabad, Allen also made contact with other princely states, which are now the most powerful princely states in South Asia and act as a bellwether among India's more than 500 princely states. It can be said that many princely states are followers of the Hyderabad princely states.

"I talked to John that the princely states of Junagadh and Hyderabad are in the same environment, and the two princely states share a common destiny, and if the two princely states can establish close ties, whether it is Ali Jinnah or Nehru, especially the latter, it should be calmer." Alan Wilson's John is the commissioner of the princely state of Junagad.

The princely states of Junagadh, the princely states of Hyderabad, and Kashmir, as it is known, are currently the top three independent kingdoms in South Asia, of which the 50,000-square-kilometer princely state of Junagad has a unique advantage because this princely state is close to Mumbai, the largest deep-water port in India.

Mumbai is responsible for more than half of South Asia's shipping and is still the home of Bollywood. In fact, the princely state of Junagad was the best of the three princely states, but it was also the first to fall. The rulers of the princely state of Junagadh, like Ali Khan, were pacifists, and the inhabitants of the princely states were predominantly Hindus.

The princely states of Junagadh and Hyderabad are grasshoppers on a rope, and no one can escape! Once it is defeated by Nehru, it will represent more than 500 princely states, which will be captured by New Delhi.

"Our two princely states are far apart, and his situation is much better, and it is very close to the northwest." Ali Khan frowned and evaluated in an objective tone, in fact, it is not wrong to say that, the princely state of Junagadh is actually quite close to Pakistan after independence. But the time of destruction was earlier than the princely state of Hyderabad, and there was not even decent resistance, and it was not as good as Hyderabad, which had fought a bloody battle.

Of course, Allen did not say it, because of the numerical inferiority, the pacifists did not want to fight with the Hindus when they first became independent, and later India went too far. In the princely states of Junagadh and Hyderabad, Nehru said that respecting the will of the people, the majority of Hindus want to join India.

However, when he arrived in Kashmir, Nehru changed his rhetoric and said that the monarch of Kashmir was a Hindu and wanted to join India.

Can the Indo-Pakistani war be avoided? Alan Wilson knew that this was impossible, because the Nehru family's hometown was in Kashmir, and the Nehru family was a famous scholar during the Mughal Empire, and because of the conscription of the Mughal Emperor, they entered the Mughal Empire to expand their influence.

Kashmir is of great importance to the Nehru family, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the land of dragons, and Nehru will never give up his homeland to Pakistan.

Hearing Ali Khan's mixed feelings about the princely states of Junagadh, Alan Wilson had to take the initiative to encourage, "The current momentum of the Israeli Congress Party is a common situation for many princely monarchs. The monarch of the Princely State of Junagadh is the same as you, and the Princely State of Junagadh is very close to Mumbai and has the objective conditions to block the port, which can be taken advantage of. ”

Alan Wilson was quite brought into the role of the dog-headed military division, and he did his best for Ali Khan. Although he knew that it was almost impossible to prevent Nehru from unifying India with the power of the major princely states, what if there was a surprise?