and 2)the fact that the moguls ruled the hindus, not the other way round in 'united india'.

If the limeys had a role, it preceded churchill by  at least a century basically bcos the subcontinent has been ethnically divided for a long long time and they just let the local groups/subgroups to run their local shows; like they seldom bothered with the caste system and let the brahmins and upper castes to stay at the top. Considered that the number of brits in the subcontinents numbered only about 80,000,it was the easy and natural way to do