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Yay for separate thread! All empire builders are murderous rapist cunts. It is known :) Sikh and Ghorka BFF against British? No prob! Look at the Communists and Nazis in 1939 ... Or 1st French Repblic/Empire and Spain against UK ... Politics does make odd bedfellows ...

This had me scratching my head too. My guess is that the hatched areas are those overrun by the Ghorka raids/offensives early in the war, described by @Sārthākā in his post a few posts ago.

@Sārthākā - thanks for the map. So, Nepal overran the Dehli area during the 1814-16 war? I'd not expect the Ghorkas to hold it - they lack the cavalry and artillery for it. Which the Sikh's do, however ... Indeed an interesting POD. If the EIC runs out of money the UK might not be so eager to...

I can't find a map of India in 1814. All seem to be of 1805 and show Bihar and Dehli in EIC hands, with Awdh/Oudh as a vassal.

What did the alliance with Khalistan involve? Didn't the Madras Presidency control most of Tamilnadu (senso largo) at this point already? Would a Nepali-Sikh victory "save"the Mahrathas? Push back the EIC to the east of Bihar?