Who in their right mind would want to rule India? Besides the stories from Jim Corbett what exactly enriched the West by turning them into being a colony?
This was indeed true following WW1. Ghandi was a leading light with his policy of passive resistance. He was actually kept alive when purporting to fast to the death. Some foreign ambassador to Britain said - "Too civilized,other countries would have shot him".
Alas, Ghandi was murdered in 1948 by his own kind. Over a million souls died when the British quit India. Religious differences .Educated people in Canada of Indian extraction seem to praise the British for stabilizing that country. The British hammered the Thugees, a tribe of thugs who robbed the defenseless, as a way of life. (Thugs)
Tea, cloth, indigo, huge labor force, strategic location.