Colonial exploitation included heritage theft, in which India's wealth of heritage, antiquities, and artifacts were exported to the colonizers' home bases. They shamelessly adorned their own museums and galleries with these treasures, and this practice continues unabated to this day.
The whole idea of establishing a colony was to exploit the resources there and enrich the home coffers. And all colonials—irrespective of whether they were British, Danes, Dutch, Italians, Belgians, Portuguese o...
