A neighbor from New Zealand who worked in Nepal once told me that after the British withdrew from India, they took a survey to see how the Indian people felt about the Empire's departure.
It turned out that some 80% of Indians never even realized the British were there.
I’m guessing that’s a joke.
However it does have a grain of truth. Tge actual British presence in the subcontinent was tiny. They mostly had the Indian nations ruling themselves with money going to the UK.