Quote Originally Posted by Mr Gribbs
You sound like a psychopath. "We civilized them, by killing them!"
We didn't need to kill them. We conquered them by trade and with our superior culture. It was only when they rebelled we had reason to use force.

Initially we thought we could bring them a British style civilisation but after the rebellion in India in 1857 that increasingly became a pipe-dream and that many natives preferred to live in ignorant savagery. Hit or miss for many of the colonies and invariably the ones populated with the most civilised peoples have fared the best.