India had achieved independence. However, not all was well, as the Indian National Congress now controlled the third largest country in the planet, after the Soviet Union and China. Furthermore, its hundreds of cultural, religious and language groups would make administration impossible. Small issues began to pile up, becoming an unsurmountable monster for Indian bureaucracy. At first it was a request for autonomy. Then an armed conflict between two competing princedoms. Soldiers went home, unhappy with their commanders from another group, and more worried about their personal allegiances.
After four years, Mahatma Gandhi gave up and exiled himself, leaving the INC to his closest aides. Almost immediately the Federation of Indian Princedoms and States collapsed and gave way to dozens of smaller warlords, a dream reduced to dust. From 1927 to 1939 there was constant petty warring,