I like that. It's messy and shambolic, which describes the OTL Partition to a tee, it lacks the bloodshed of the 1947 Partition which anyone would expect of a deal brokered by Wavell rather than Mountbatten.

I think this also presupposes no Pakistan, and some sort of a Federal deal to bring in the princely States, especially Hyderabad? maybe a two-house solution with the upper house being composed of a mix of 'senators' and 'lords'? Or what about the Princes as Governors?

or we could be sneaky and not specify anything at all beyond the absolute barest of bones.

Mark