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The early Britons were much more sophisticated than many people realize. See e.g.

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20170410-why-i-lived-like...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ness_of_Brodgar

Fair enough, but at this time (5,000 years ago) other places were building cities with centrally planned sanitation and drainage systems. The earliest written script in the British isles dates to the Roman era, two thousand years after Harappan proto-writing. The Bronze Age came to Britain 500 years later than in India.

Reducing colonialism to a simple morality narrative relies on the objectively false assumption that civilizations are all developing at the same time along the same trajectory. If the Romans had never colonized Britain, Britain probably wouldn’t have been in any position to colonize India by the 1700s. And all of us would probably still be subsistence farmers.

This is such a niche take.

I live in the U.S, how many high school graduates would even know about the Harappan civilization?

Hell, I have difficulty finding a midwesterner who can name 2 cities in the Indian subcontinent with the correct pronunciation.

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