James Mill
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"James Mill" was a Scotland/Scottish historian, economist, political theorist, and philosopher. He was a founder of classical economics, together with David Ricardo, and the father of John Stuart Mill, the philosopher of liberalism. His influential "The History of British India/History of British India" contains a complete denunciation and rejection of Indian culture and civilisation.

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Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all.

Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be spoken of according to his actions.