James Brooke's Racism in India

Brooke felt that the decadent values of modernity were responsible for ruining the noble natives of India. Brooke had spent his early career stumbling into a subcontinent that had seen its cultural substrate torn apart in the name of short-term profits. He wrote, quote, their habits are most filthy. Their dress in the most unbecoming. Their face is the most ugly and their figures the most ungraceful"