"Let me ask, since you seem quite knowledgeable - do you think the British meant well in India, or not?" This is one of those meaningless questions imo. I'll j

"Let me ask, since you seem quite knowledgeable - do you think the British meant well in India, or not?" This is one of those meaningless questions imo. I'll just say that the British were probably better than the other colonizing powers. (The french had a presence in some parts of India for a while and were no worse than the British, but Germans or Belgians would have been worse I guess. So in that very narrow sense we got lucky). As for books, Try "The Lotus Throne" By Abraham Eraly for the Mughal period and "India After Nehru" for Indian hiatory from 1965 or so.