As recent as 1943, Winston Churchill engineered a famine which wiped out about 4 million people in Bengal alone. 1/3rd of its population.
Just 2 million less than the number of people Hitler had exterminated.

Benign has a new definition. https://twitter.com/whackfrost/status/1280590004184666116

"Lord" Curzon's "education" policy shut down more than 10000 Hindu schools & colleges in one shot across India. I'm understating the number. A 5000 year old unbroken learning system was uprooted. Scholars became impoverished clerks serving your "benign" empire.

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The British empire was the triumph of a bunch of unscrupulous island savages who got lucky with science and spread small pox and venereal diseases across the globe in the garb of bringing"civilization.