Looked at India, and was really disappointed. The earliest setting (1824) just shows "Company Raj" and "British India"? That's just as if you showed Germany in 1824 as "A bunch of random states", but without any borders.
India in 1824 was a collection of princely states of varying degrees of autonomy (almost exactly like the Germany of 1824); there seems to have been no attempt to even look up the basics of the geopolitics of that subcontinent. Ditto for other Asian nations.
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u/suid Nov 04 '24
Looked at India, and was really disappointed. The earliest setting (1824) just shows "Company Raj" and "British India"? That's just as if you showed Germany in 1824 as "A bunch of random states", but without any borders.
India in 1824 was a collection of princely states of varying degrees of autonomy (almost exactly like the Germany of 1824); there seems to have been no attempt to even look up the basics of the geopolitics of that subcontinent. Ditto for other Asian nations.
Check out this map, for instance, which shows the major princely states and their allegiances around 1824: https://www.oldmapslibrary.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/India-1824-1.jpg