It isn't offensive but for the current generation it is plain wrong as you say. I think what he (KI) says might have been quite true for the generations living

It isn't offensive but for the current generation it is plain wrong as you say. I think what he (KI) says might have been quite true for the generations living during, and for a few decades after, British India, but no longer. Keep in mind Britain has changed drastically too in these decades. It is no longer the cultural power it was, and countries like India now have plenty of our own problems for anyone to even think about the past. Besides it is nothing but romanticism. No invading country is truly altruistic. They give with half an hand and take with the rest one-half hands. Also culture and modernity are subjective concepts.