Following the Amritsar massacre, Indian intellectuals and local leaders made great efforts to eliminate all British influence from India, and saw Germany in a very suspicious light. The Kaiser Willhelm II correctly assessed that to promise greater liberties, autonomy and eventual independence would help alleviate some of the Raj's problems. Widespread reforms were instituted to improve the Indian citizenry's condition and limit Deutscher Heer powers. The short-lived Imperial Domain of Hindustan was created. One downside was that Germany attempted a partial germanisation of India by making their language that of government, alienating the large English-speaking middle class which had previously supported them.
However, this did not completely deter the Indian National Congress, especially its maverick leader Mahatma Gandhi, from pursuing independence at all costs. German intelligence eventually discovered a link between the INC and Soviet agents, which began a downwards spiral of paranoia, culminating in the Delhi Massacre.