Your hatred for the British Empire is your own cross to bear.
Its not hatred. Its harsh reality about British empire from our POV. What you are parroting is simply Anglo-American propaganda. And I dont really subscribe to that propaganda that British Empire was all benevolent and beneficial to its colonies. The fact that India's democracy, liberty and rule of law has any thing to do with Britain is propaganda spread by none other than the Brits themselves (the Indians did the hard work of creating and sustaining these institution and Brits got the credit). The reality was that British Empire was only a shade better then Nazi Germany.
For every Canada, Australia. US you have Burma, Nigeria, Uganda, Sudan, Kenya, Botswana, Zimbabwe which are as bad or worse then Vietnam, Guayana orSierra Leone. Moreover the Whites in Canada, Australia, New Zealand or the US enjoyed the same status as the Brits under the Empire so their opinion about the British Empire isn't likely to be negative. Canada, Australia, New Zealand enjoyed dominion status under the Empire which wasn't the case with India. India and other places in Africa were simply colonies. Ask a native of any other colony and you will know. So no matter how corrupt, crime-ridden, totalitarian or screwed-up their own country/government maybe the certainly don't want to go back to the enslavement/apartheid under the British system.
"India was on the road to being just as broken and poor as Bangladesh (or East Pakistan for you) had the British not influenced it. "
How so? To me it sound like a very silly comment thats without British enslavement we would never have succeeded in anything. What evidence you have to prove that?
What evidence you have to prove that?Please address the table in Post 31.
I am not minimizing the pain caused by colonization. I am pointing out that India was lucky to go through the pain of British colonization instead of Chinese, French or who knows what.
Of course nobody can say what India would be today otherwise, but it is impossible to get around the fact that it is far and away better off than if it were infected by the French
The reality was that British Empire was only a shade better then Nazi Germany.
Except that the result of one leads the world in freedom and prosperity, and the other was defeated in WWII and re-colonized by ex-British colonies.