Robert Clive (in the real world Clive of India) attempted to commit suicide twice when he first went to India, due to depression. In the real world his pistol misfired both times. It was only after this that he went on to achieve greatness. What if it had not, and he had died before he achieved greatness?

Without Robert Clive, the British are unable to stop the French becoming the dominant power in India. At the same time the French cannot stop the Anglo-Prussian alliance removing them from North America, leading to an earlier but less successful American Revolution.

Over the decades, the French Empire has becomes the dominant world power (analogous to the British Empire of the real world), with the Union (the descendant of the Anglo-Prussian alliance), a resurgent Ottoman state, the Dutch Empire and the Russian Empire as the lesser powers of the world. Colonialism has taken a very different route to the real world.

By the year 2000 political and scientific thought have also taken different paths to the real world, with a number of political philosophies becoming dominant. In science, the biological disciplines are more advanced than the real world, with genetic engineering and DNA computing being widely used, while the physical sciences are less advanced, with space flight and nuclear weapons being recent innovations.

The information on Clive-Less World is divided up into the following sections, on separate pages:

• The Clive-Less World Timeline
  • Part 1 - 1740 to 1791
  • Part 2 - 1792 to 1843
  • Part 3 - 1844 to 1894
  • Part 4 - 1895 to 1947
  • Part 5 - 1948 to 2000
• Clive-Less World Itself
  • The World in 2000
  • Europe
  • Asia
  • Africa
  • North America
  • Central America
  • South America
  • Australasia
  • Antarctica
• Politics
• Society
• Science and Technology
• Differences from the Real World

STORIES

Set wholly or partly in this world.

• The Plague Policeman. My novel, published by Sea Lion Press.

• Oh Blast - Clive-Less World in Puritan World. A story by David bar Elias in which Clive-Less World and Puritan World meet.

LINKS

To various things that were very useful in the creation of this alternate history.

• History of Colonial India
• Company Rule In India
• Robert Clive
• Biotechnology Timeline

• Wikipedia.
• Flags of the World.
• AlternateHistory.com, a massive resource of alternate histories.
• And of course, Google.

• The Panopticon Singularity, by Charles Stross. A different type of Panopticon Society to the one described here, but related to it, interesting, and scary.

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