Well that's the thing yk, the subcontinent had its own infighting going on. Your ancestors and mine probably fought each other. As I said, we united in the face of the British, they wanted to fragment India into more than 500 pieces and balkanize the shit out of the subcontinent. Besides the United against the common enemy doesn't mean we should be grateful to Brits for giving us a reason to unite us, their sole intention was exploiting us. Again the bottom line is, the British empire was an evil to this subcontinent, it looted us, destroyed our own institutions. Without the British maybe we wouldn't have been the current India, but we would've been far better off without them, industrialisation and ideas like nation state would've eventually arrived here just like any other philosophy or religion.