[Cronos]

They have a grand history of seeking to uplift the poor and extending charity to the oppressed.

Not true for the initial Company Raj in India when it was just about making money from the fabulously wealthy continent of India

Only in the 1800s, thanks to Methodists did that change. And it was after Company Raj ended in 1858 and the Empire started, that's when the entire myth of "we have come to better the world" started.

Yes, they did a lot of good, but also a lot of bad. On the whole the British Empire wasn't evil, but the outcomes of it's blundering (Pakistan, Palestine, Iraq, etc.) mean that it just gets a small plus point

[muawiyah]

The Brits as a people, not the Raj ~ there’s a difference.

[RobbyS]

The British were terribly wounded financially and militarily by the outcome of the Great Theirs “blunders” were the result of their weaknened position. Ghandi et al, depened on that weakness.