Mind Clear, you aren't c;ear about everything. Slavery is a state of mind for you and me. For the poor rickshaw puller, he knows he can't think of sending his children to school so he doesn;t even bother himself thinking about school admissions. A dying young man in a village who can't reach a hospital or call ambulance services attributes his early demise to the will of God. So for them "Slavery" is real. They are slave to their miserable living conditions that the better off take advantage of. Did British colonization bring benefits? Yes, I agree huge benefits although at a high price of nation being looted. Apart from other benefits you mention, British unified the country, put a check on the Muslim growth, put a check to the aggressiveness in neighbors. As long as the British were there, there was no attempt by any country to invade India except Japanese during WWII. Can we modern INdians learn something from our history and the British method of controlling "bad" guys and "bad" neighbors. We didn't learn to use the carrot & stick policy even after seeing its use for 300 years. Both things that Indians haven't been able to do even today.
