Maybe there are better off now, but for a long time people lived under segregation and were discriminated against, the majority population had no say in any of the politics for a long time. Erasure of culture and language of the natives. Import of opium, an addictive drug, with war being fought over being able to keep selling it. Colonialism has a giant impact on a people.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2348771

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