Foxy,

To have remembered British rule they must have lived under it, one does not have memories of something unless one has experienced it.
What one has of what one was told or read are recollections.
Were your Indian acquaintances light skinned ?

In very racist India light skin is an asset and is usually referred to as ‘wheaten’ especially in marriage proposals.

Is Mise,

I'm sure that their families (parents and grand parents
and other relatives - uncles, aunts, et cetera) who
must have lived during those times and passed on the
information to their younger generations as my family
did with the Soviet regime.

You ask about their skin colours?
Actually, I'll get back to you on that one. I hadn't
noticed. I think they came here under the skilled
labour intake. Australia needed their expertise and
knowledge.

Now back to the topic:

Before I leave I'll finish with a few thoughts:

Lets be kind to the mixed modern Brits
It's not their fault that colonialism got the splits
Coming to an inglorious end
'Cause greed and poverty did not blend

People suffered under British rule
Denying them justice was simply not cool
But hey, there were some good things to be had
Not everything was really bad

There were the perks of Shepherd's Pie
And Toad In The Hole just made one sigh
Today we have people who belong
But "Rule Britannia" is not their song!

The English in Ireland,

During the 1840's under English rule, with a population of 8 million, 1 million died from starvation, 4 million disposed. Despite the potato famine, there was enough food produced in Ireland to feed 20 million people, most of which was exported to England. Murder and gendercide, at least they weren't racists, the Irish were white, but Catholic, the English hated the Irish peasantry in particular. Wig Politian's in Westminster believed the famine was a good way of reducing the Irish population.

Foxy
Just so,passed on information, not memories.so your Indian acquaintances had no direct knowledge of British rule whereas the people that I talked to had direct knowledge and they preferred that rule.
One among the good things was the abolition of Thugee, whose adherents murdered strangers as a religious offering to their god,

Is Mise,

You say you spoke to people who had direct knowledge
of India under the Raj. My friends and colleagues
also spoke to people who had direct knowledge. Their
experiences apparently differed from the ones you
spoke to.

Perhaps the people that you spoke to were just being
polite. Anything is possible. The people my friends
and colleagues spoke to were fellow Indians (family
members) and had no reason to be polite. They were
being honest.

Enjoy the rest of your day.

Foxy
I was in direct contact and spoke to them in their own language whereas you are basing your objections to my observations on supposition and second hand knowledge.
Why don’t you, for once, admit that you were wrong?