A lot of people don’t talk about it because the Indian elite are highly westernized. It’s hard to talk too much shit about the British when you’re also an Oxbridge graduate, have property in London, etc.

That being said, where would India be if the British Empire had never happened? Probably still doing subsistence agriculture. No slight to India, but industrial civilization is an aberrational step forward and there’s no reason to think it would arise at the same time in isolated cultures spontaneously.

The British themselves are the product of being colonized as much as the Indians. They were colonized by Rome, they were colonized by the Normans, etc. They assimilated and grew better from those influences.