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Not all in one place 😃 The book about the East India company written by two Indians shows that a lot of the company's expansian was by attraction rather then promotion.

penguinbooksindia.com/en/content/east-india-company-worlds-most-powerful-corporation

• After the mutiny's in India, I believe it was Kitchner who went there to study what caused the mutinies, he concluded it was was by Britain meddling in Indian culture, mainly Christian missionaires. Britain then forbid missionaries in India.
  
• There was only one VC medal for the entire British Empire, over 10% of the medals where one by Indian troops, this is despite Indians initially not be eligible for it. This does not indicate the Indians troops where unhappy.
  
• India was far more advanced in many areas the Britain, most importantly metal working. Most of the Indian cannons captured by Wellington where incorporated directly into the British army, they where just as good if not better quality then British ones. Just because of its huge population compared to Britain, India could have started manufacturing weapons to overthrow the British. In Pakistan, with just simple workshops the craftsmen there can duplicate any western weapon. This never happened.
  
  More peculiar is the exchange of letters between Ghandhi and Churchill. After Churchill made the speech in the house of commons about Ghandhi swaggering around in his robes, they exchanged a few nasty letters. After Indian Independence, Ghandhi stated he didn't want these letters published because he didn't want to tarnish the memory of Churchill.
  
  A major WW2 Campaign conveniently forgotten by both India and Britain is the Burma Campaign. When Hitler attacked the Soviet Union, one of the reasons for his rapid advances was the defection of the Ukranians to Germany.
  
  When Japan attacked USA, and then attacked Malaysia, and then tried to advance into Burma with the goal to take of India. They probably assumed that the Indian army would defect or remain neutral. The Japanese had extensive propaganda to try do this.
  
  George MacDonald Fraiser wrote an autobiographical book on the campaign, but it was from the persepctivw of a private infantryman. He then states the Indian and Brit regiments got along really well.
  
  In one of his stories he had to drop off a new antiTank gun to an Indian regiment, that was isolated in the jungle. When he arrived there was a single British officer there who was slightly insane because he hadn't talked to a white man for months. The guy was having conversations with himself etc. The Indians could have killed the British officer and defected to the Japanese, went back to India or what ever. They never did.
  
  www.amazon.co.uk/Quartered-Safe-George-MacDonald-Fraser/dp/0007105932
  
  If India would have defected to the Japanese or remained neutral, Japan would have benefited from the massive resources from Japan. More importantly, the Japanese could have passed through India, to sieze the Middle Eastern oil fields and link up with Rommel. With the Suez Canal lost and the oilfields lost, the allies would have lost the war. Thos never happened.
  
  There is a lot of historic revision by both India and Britain. Anyway these are the things just off the top of my head. There are probably some inaccuracies. But all these things indicate that India did not hate Britain.