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Deceit was perfectly ok when dealing with governments of whatever groups in question. Denial of human status was perfectly ok when dealing with non-white people.
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That approach was also applied to humans in the slave trade. From India, they exported both people and opium.
Worse, all this was sanctioned by the English crown and actively supported by it. Francis Drake, for example, was just a pirate. He was knighted by the then queen and told to carry on looting.
Nor was it always the non-whites who got the short end of the stick. Even whites, as in Ireland, saw the nasty, long and brutish aspects of English character. The Irish famines were caused as decidedly by English avarice as the Bengal famine of 1943 was.
It would have been understandable if the dead English queen had been a close personal friend of Indian leaders. But that's a ludicrous expectation.
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