to the great detriment of India...as compared to what?
As compared to the perpetually un-industrialized path it was on? As opposed to annexation by some other imperial power?
This sound like the Communist argument that the workers are exploited by the factories instead of sharecropping or some other alternative for unskilled labor.
"as compared to what?"
As compared to..... not being colonized. Duh!
"As compared to the perpetually un-industrialized path it was on?"
How do you assume it would have remained "un-industrialized". Even Japan, Germany, Italy, Russia and the US were "un-industrialized" in the period prior to the British colonisation of India and embarked on industrialisation quite late. Far later than England, France, Spain or Portugal.