don't mate - I tried this line of defence some time ago - and there are genuinely people around who think it better that Britain didn't share its education and societal advances and left the indians in the state they were found in.Going back you could say that about any colonisation not just the British Empire though. Spanish in Argentina etc, Portuguese in Brazil, Belgians in the Congo, further back Roman Empire pretty much everywhere. Did these cruel but admittedly more educated, cleverer people ultimately bring the lands they colonised forward, for want of a better word? Would a lot of these countries have been decades, maybe even centuries behind modern science, medicine etc, without colonisation? I guess we'll never know.
Then they try judging people from 4-500 years ago by todays woke mentality.