Stop gaslighting.

Neither the Islamic colonization nor the Anglo-Saxon one nor the Christian one (by Portugal etc.) was ever a 'benign' entity. White guilt over the brutalities of their ancestors does not automatically render the previous mass-murderers any better.

The scores of destroyed temples/shrines/statues all over the Indian sub-continent, and the utter lack of any ancient ones in the North of India should be evidence enough, but then again, in the prevailing age of unreason, the the race/academic pedigree of the writer has far more importance than actual archaeology or indeed historical documentation.