True also that they were/are not representatives of India itself, but they serve as the initial persons for Indian companies to set up shop here. It would be far more permanent than the Chinese attempts.
The blacks felt that the Indians had profited from their labor while not working the soil themselves; they also felt that they could do the same function themselves.
This is how Freddy Mercury’s family ended up in England - they were expelled from Zanzibar. It wasn’t really a violent expulsion, but those Asians (unlike the British that left) could take nothing with them.
The former British East Africa has paid the price for that policy ever since.