60 years of independance?

Ghandi said words to the effect that it was better to be run badly by your own hand than be run by a foreign power. What right did Britain have to subjugate another people? Britain may have given India industrialisation and "civilization" - but the Indians did not bring it themselves. Britain may have given India much, but it also took much away, and held India and its people in very low regard. Is it not better to hold your own tyrants to account than to have to hold the tyrants of another country to account?