I have the opposite view sorry. IMO the best thing that ever happened to India was Brit occupation.
India is an incredibly depressing place.
Baloney. The Brits were simply slavers. The main reason the Brits stopped the slave trade was to stop competition. They built their plantations where the slaves were and had no need to transport them. Furthermore any Indian who ever dared try to improve the life of Indians was strapped to the front of a cannon.
Dr Watson and Duncan Bleak fondly recalled their service there, and their souvenired taste for curry in “Terror By Night” (1946).
The Brits freed the Hindus from the Muslims but then imposed their own vicious rule, largely done by the East India Company. The Crown actually took over rule to get the EIC out of the way as their management had been so despotic.