I was about to post the same response but you beat me to it. As a follow up to (4) above, watch Shashi Tharoor's longer speech on the devastation and mess that

I was about to post the same response but you beat me to it. As a follow up to (4) above, watch Shashi Tharoor's longer speech on the devastation and mess that the British left in India: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB5ykS-_-CI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB5ykS-_-CI Also read the old book Empire in Asia, How We Came by It: A Book Of Confessions by William McCullagh Torrens.