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The North African campaign of the 2nd world war. This from wiki: “The North Africa campaign was often labeled a "war without hate," a pure military clash in the desert without the partisan roundups and ethnic cleansing happening in Europe. This view has been challenged by recent historians...

I have a lot more sources than that. My point was about the complexity of the question, was British Colonial rule bad for India. I’d had a simple ‘colonial rule was always bad’ mentality but in actual fact, it’s incredibly difficult to make that judgement, perhaps the judgement can only be made...

That’s an incredibly simplistic statement. British occupation had huge benefits as well as huge draw backs. Perhaps one of the biggest benefits was that it meant that some countries were not colonised by Nazi Germany because the Brits had got there first in the last century.

India wasn’t a country prior to British occupation. Are you talking about some rajput or mughal principality?

I spent around 3 months in India. I spoke to several Indians who thanked me for the British Raj. At the time, I was quite shocked and wanted to apologise. I then read a book on India by V.S Naipaul and realised how complex the questions of Britain’s involvement are. One thing is clear though...