India's status in the Dominion carrier counterfactual

Was India actually a Dominion at the date assumed by the carrier counterfactual?

The reply uses the term loosely for the scenario's naval allocation and acknowledges that India lacked the same political position as the Dominions.

A follow-up challenges the inclusion of India among the Dominions receiving extra warships in the scenario. The reply uses Dominion loosely for a territory with its own armed-service establishment. It acknowledges that India's political and civil-service arrangements differed from those of the Dominions. That distinction limits the carrier allocation to a counterfactual convention and prevents it from establishing equivalent constitutional status.