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An old woman starving in the street during the Bengal Famine, India, 1943
According to opinion polling, some 43 percent of Britons think that the British Empire was a “good thing” and 44 percent that British colonialism is “something to be proud of” (compared to 19 percent who think the empire was bad, and 21 percent who believe that colonialism is a matter for “regret”). Other polls have shown even greater support for British colonialism.
All of this from the NYRB "The Great British Empire Debate"
