If there's one thing common between INC, Muslim League and Hindu Mahasabha, it's the suspicion and hatred towards the princely states. This seems ridiculous, given that all three recognised the communal problem, and still vehemently resisted the one system that prevented+

+communalisation. This means only one thing, these parties were hoping to ride the communal wave, rather than solve it. They saw no other way other than this, simply because they belonged to the democratic normative school of thought.+

+This is so typically Indian that it's almost laughable. Chasing after idealist politics at the cost of practicality is what we've been doing post Kautilya. Nothing's changed.
Also, let's not kid ourselves into believing that somehow a French style "revolution"+

+would've happened in India which would've overthrown monarchs. India had a painfully low literacy rate, little to no capital, mostly agrarian and little to no national consciousness (except for a few urban centres). Nationalism was relegated to "anti British" sentiments, rather+

+than a feeling of oneness cutting across cultures.
Under such circumstances, a cluster of monarchs guided by central government would've been the ideal system. But our "founding fathers" had other ideas.