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Many Pakistanis and Indians continue to blame the British for their nations’ dysfunction—corruption, inequality, and sectarian strife—despite having over seven decades of self-rule. Colonialism undoubtedly left a mark, but this fixation on historical grievance often serves to deflect responsibility from present failures. Political elites and their apologists perpetuate this narrative to mask their own complicity in the very systems of exploitation they claim were imposed from outside. It becomes a convenient myth: everything wrong is a British residue; nothing is truly their own fault.

Yet paradoxically, many of these same voices quickly condemn Europeans who express suspicion or criticism toward Jewish power or influence in finance, media, or geopolitics. What they condemn as "conspiracy theory" or "racism" in the West is functionally identical to their own anti-colonial blame politics. The postcolonial subject demands moral license to interrogate power structures and historical influence—so long as that interrogation doesn't extend beyond their preferred ideological boundaries. This double standard is glaring.

The Pakistani intellectual, for example, who speaks boldly about British manipulation of India’s communal lines in 1947, will ridicule any European who questions modern global influence by elites with disproportionate power. It’s not about truth or justice—it’s about narrative control. As Freud might suggest, this is projection: a refusal to confront one’s own failures, mirrored in the condemnation of others doing the very same. To demand accountability from the past while denying others the right to ask hard questions of the present is not moral high ground—it’s hypocrisy.