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That's underselling how racist Churchill was towards Indians. "Beastly people with a beastly religion".
Though, to be fair, he was also racist towards african peoples, jewish people, arab people, the Chinese and the Irish.
Churchill's racism has its own Wikipedia page! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_views_of_Winston_Churchill
And Australia's First Nations peoples