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Yep.

India remained, in a large part, "independent" until the British pulled out of the subcontinent in the 1940s. Depending on how you want to define independent, and the exact year, a third to half of the India "colony" was under the rule of Indian monarchs.

The profits will mean they keep coming back, even if they lose some ships.