> British colonies universally benefited from the British empire

Yeah, the 100-200 million Indians who were killed by the East India Company through famines after being forced to raise opium instead of grain to help EIC to sell opium to kill 10-20 million Chinese every year would definitely agree...

https://yourstory.com/2014/08/bengal-famine-genocide

So India gets the praise and the British Empire gets the blame? And how about Since '47? Are you taking the same critical approach?

Every great regime will experience crisis. But you have to ask yourself -- where would I have been otherwise?

Indians are still clamoring to get into this supposedly genocidal regime.