Yes, your right, it's always more complex than that, in all aspects of international relationships.
Your question has a complexity to it as well. What do you mean by India; the formal Indian government's stance or the Indian people? The veneration of what aspects of those nations who fought for...
I know it does seem a liitle irritating but perhaps it's really just a case of pigeons coming home to roost from the days when the East India Company and then the British Raj ruled most of India, Pakistan & Burma and appropriated their wealth to help the British Empire to expand and flourish...