> the British had began banning the extremely common rituals of burning widows alive, burying alive of lepers, and honor killing of family members +1, you are

> the British had began banning the extremely common rituals of burning widows alive, burying alive of lepers, and honor killing of family members +1, you are right about this. Banning these was an undeniably good thing for the Indian society. > British pumping huge sums of money into modernizing the country and offering a western education to Indian children for the first time this is a load of BS though. You make it sound like they were there out of their infinite benevolence to do good for the Indians, when in fact they looted the country indiscriminately...