A stronger Royal Indian Navy could have offered middle-class Indians a professional institution in which people from different communities worked together. Locally crewed cruisers could have added national status within the political structure created by the Government of India Act 1919. Four cruiser crews would have been too small a group to resolve the problems surrounding independence and partition. At most, shared service might have eased some divisions at the margins.
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Naval service and political integration in British India
A larger Royal Indian Navy might have created one shared professional institution across communities, although four cruisers could not determine India's political future.