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Chapter 11 - The Junagadh princely state

Of course these words did not say with the aides in front of them, but Alan Wilson from the perspective of involving their own interests, so that these aides understand how they should make a choice, "you have to understand that once British India became independent, in London became the mainstream. What is the question that we should consider immediately now? Now there are 100,000 civil servants and their families in British India, and later they become Indians directly?"

Seeing these aides shake their heads, obviously not comfortable with becoming Indians, Alan Wilson turned the tables and said, "Then we have to consider another question, are there so many jobs on the mainland left for those of us who return home? Can we still stay in the civil service?"

The words to this point, the meaning is already very clear, including Alan Wilson, Hyderabad Commissioner, the entire civil service in British India are now at risk of unemployment, for the future of life, as far as possible for their own interests is not too much, you know they are now facing the world's richest man.

This unification of minds was so successful that there was no need to think about the future of unemployment. Out of the British settlement, the city of Hyderabad was filled with ragged, idle people begging with numb eyes. Imagine these unfed people as themselves, and it could be the scene of British India's independence and their return to British soil.

Figured this out, after discussing the problem, these assistants are obviously much smarter, seems to have grown up in a day, become really like a civil servant, out of the campus of the student temperament has disappeared.

Get the armament, Alan Wilson thought it was not difficult, in 1945 this time, more than five million troops fighting under the command of the British, although the British army is mainly built to the navy, but in the World War this critical point, the army on the army is also called huge, to tanks, for example, including infantry tanks, cruiser tanks, including the production of twenty-six thousand, and this does not count the number of heavy tanks behind.

Want to arm an Indian earth state, it is not a problem at all, the only problem is whether there is someone to do it seriously.

During the first month in Hyderabad's native state, Alan Wilson familiarized himself with his work, thinking about how to get the benefits of Ali Khan, the world's richest man, to play his part in the independence of British India, although the independence of British India did not seem to have a standard answer.

But he also knew that the independence process of British India, just to his identity as a commissioner of Hyderabad, is not possible to play an influential role in the two years before independence, Alan has to do a lot of things.

On the independence of British India, Allen Wilson certainly have their own ideas, independent India can not be too weak, or not to play a role in checking and balancing the pacifist world, but too strong India will not rest.

And after India's independence, how will be viewed by the British colonial this time? There is no doubt that India will certainly consider it a national shame, the paragraph about the British plunder of fifty trillion dollars, flooding the Internet in later times, can represent the thoughts of Indians.

Britain is generally the object of Indian curses, as long as there is not that neighbor to the north who pulls the hatchet.

While establishing a personal friendship with the Hyderabad monarch, Allen is also in contact with other earth states. As the most powerful earth state in South Asia today, the Hyderabad earth state plays a role as a wind vane among more than 500 earth states in India. It can be said that numerous earth states are following the Hyderabad earth state to speak.

"I talked to John, Junagadh earth state and Hyderabad are in the midst of an environment, the two earth states share a common destiny, if the two earth states can establish a close connection, whether it is Arijana or Nehru, especially the latter should be calmer." The John that Ellen Wilson spoke of was the commissioner of Junagadh princely state.

Junagadh princely state, together with Hyderabad princely state, and the well-known Kashmir, are currently the top three independent kingdoms in South Asia, of which the 50,000-square-kilometer Junagadh princely state has a unique advantage because this princely state is next to Mumbai, India's largest deep-water port.

Mumbai is responsible for more than half of South Asia's shipping and is still the home base of Bollywood in later times. In fact, Junagadh was the best located of the three major states, but it was also the first to be overthrown. The monarch of Junagadh, like Ali Khan, was a pacifist, and the inhabitants of the state were mainly Hindus.

Junagadh and Hyderabad were in the same boat, no one could escape! Once they are broken by Nehru, it means that more than 500 native states will be in the pocket of New Delhi.

"Our two earth states are very far away, he is much better off, very close to the northwest." Ali Khan frowned and evaluated in an objective tone, in fact it is right to say so, Junagadh earth state is actually really quite close to Pakistan after independence. But the time of overthrow is even earlier than Hyderabad earth state, not even a decent resistance, not as good as Hyderabad, which had a bloody battle.

Of course Alan didn't say it, the pacifists, because of their numerical disadvantage, did not want to fight with the Hindus when they first became independent, and later it was India that went too far. Junagadh and Hyderabad, Nehru said he respected public opinion and most Hindus wanted to join India.

But when it came to Kashmir, Nehru changed his words and said that the monarch of Kashmir was a Hindu and wanted to join India, so I wanted it all, which angered Ari Jinnah and caused the first India-Pakistan war.

Indo-Pakistani war can not be avoided? Alan Wilson knew it was impossible, because the Nehru family's old home, in the territory of Kashmir, the Nehru family was a famous scholar during the Mughal Empire, because the Mughal emperor's conscription, only to enter the Mughal Empire to expand its influence.

Kashmir is of great significance to the Nehru family, and it is not too much to say that it is the land of the dragon's prosperity, and Nehru would never give up his homeland to Pakistan.

Hearing Ali Khan's mixed feelings about the Junagadh toast, Alan Wilson had to take the initiative to speak up and encourage, "With the current prestige of the Congress Party, it is a common situation for the monarchs of many toast states. The monarch of Junagadh earth state is the same as you, and Junagadh earth state is close to Mumbai, has the objective condition of blocking the port, and this can be used."

Alan Wilson kinda brought into the role of the dog-headed warlord, and did his best to Ali Khan. Although he knew that it was almost impossible to stop Nehru from unifying India with the power of the major earth states, but what if there was a surprise?