An Indian battleship needs more than three years

What would a clean-sheet Indian battleship look like in this delayed-war scenario?

No such ship is likely by 1942 because the Indian Navy lacks the time, institutional support, and political freedom for a battleship programme.

The three-year interval is too short to create a clean-sheet capital ship and the organization needed to operate it. The British Indian Army would also resist a naval programme that competed for skilled personnel and money. Indian naval growth is more plausible through corvettes and cruisers already suited to the institution's direction. A later date could reopen the question, but 1942 cannot support it.